Ting Lowers No Contract Smartphone Pricing

HILLSBORO, Ore. - Feb. 3, 2014 - PRLog -- The growing success of no contract cell phone providers has become more and more popular with consumers. Leading the pack is Ting which has just updated their pricing revealing lower costs for minutes, messages and data usage for all their plans. While still adhering to their “pay for what you use” plans, they still have plans that you can start with and see what you actually use during the month. If it goes up you pay more, if it goes down you pay less and can be credited to your next month’s bill.

Those that use more data will see the most savings. Their XL plan used to cost $42 per month but now has been dropped in price to just $29 per month. The more data used the more the prices have dropped. Minutes and text messages have not dropped in price but they have simply been allowed more of it for the same price. $11 per month gets you 4,800 messages instead of (just) 4,000.  Ting has also added an extra 100 minutes to call time totaling 2,100 minutes for the same price of just $35 per month.

Note, that if you end up using a little less than that you are credit back the extra amount to your next bill. In some cases your plan is also dropped to the lower monthly fee. If you then end up using more minutes than you thought you are not penalized and paid an extra “overage” fee of any kind.

Ting uses the Sprint network and as of today February 3, 2014, Sprint has dropped their pricing. Ting decided to also drop their pricing and pass on the savings to their customers instead of keeping the pricing the same. Since the popularity of no contract phones has only increased, this is only a win situation for the consumer.

Those that may have tried Ting’s savings calculator (http://www.hostinganddesigns.com/WPDesigns2/?page_id=235) in the past to see how much they could save should most likely try the calculator again since the pricing has dropped in their favor. This is especially true on the data usage having dropped about 30% for their XL plan. Ting had great prices on messaging and call time and decent prices on their data plans. However, now their data usage pricing has shown a marked improvement which will defiantly attract a few heavier data users now and quite possibly those who thought they were going to need a little head room on the data usage. (More information here: http://www.hostinganddesigns.com/WPDesigns2/?page_id=668)

Ting is a cellphone provider based in Canada offering no contract cellphones and wireless plans with no contract rates. You only pay for what you use each month and  megabytes, messages and minutes are all billed separately with a handy dashboard to log into and see your usage in realtime.