The tariff is designed to appeal to users who live along the US-Mexico or US-Canada borders and frequently move between the countries, or those who travel internationally to Canada, Mexico or Latin America on a regular basis.
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Sprint on Tuesday announced its new “Open World” plan add-on, which is free for current customers and provides low-fee worldwide calls and texts to more than 180 countries, in addition to free calls and texts to Mexico and Canada.
Following Verizon’s decision to borrow some Un-carrier ideas for its new rate plans, it looks like Sprint may have done the same.
Sprint’s Open World is a riposte to T-Mobile US Inc (NYSE:TMUS)’s Mobile without Borders. Historically, users have spent considerable sums of money to use cellular service in other countries, including Mexico and Canada. The plan offers 1GB of free data while traveling in Mexico, Canada, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay, but will charge $30 for every additional gigabyte used. Sprint will soon add Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela to its list of Open World participating countries. With this plan, Sprint will definitely make your travelling less expensive and by looking at this plan it seems that Sprint has introduced the plan in response to T-Mobile. And for customers traveling in Europe, Asia or the Middle East, Sprint Open World offers free texting and $0.20/min calls.
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Sprint has an older Global Roaming add-on that is also free, which charges 20 cents per minute for calls, with free texting and 2G of free data in Mexico, Canada and other select countries.
