Thursday, August 23, 2012

BYO Sprint device to Ting's new cell phone network


Ting's online calculator encourages you to sniff out savings.


(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)

Ting, a newish, little-known cell phone carrier, wants to stand out by mixing and matching your cell phone plan. Today the MVNO, which rides on Sprint's network, announced plans to let you bring your own Sprint device to the network.


As it stands now, you have to buy one of Ting's 10 compatible handsets from the carrier -- including the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Motorola Photon Q -- but starting sometime in Q4 all that will change. When the bring-your-own plan rolls out, most Sprint phones will also work with Ting, except handset like the iPhone, BlackBerry, push-to-talk phones using Sprint's DirectConnect service.


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