Sprint boots 200 American patriots for using their phones

[LoZoccolo]

Shortly after they returned home from the war in Iraq, Sprint accused 200 American soldiers of excessive roaming and summarily canceled their wireless service. At least, that's the word from one of these embattled national heroes.

According to our war veteran, who recently posted his story to the forum at SprintUsers.com, the 200 troopers were roaming excessively because Sprint doesn't provide wireless coverage in West Point, home to the U.S. Military Academy.

http://www.theregister.com/2007/07/19/sprint_accuses_soldiers_of_excessive_roaming

They offer you free roaming but take it away if you use it too much! Well, at least I know one way of getting out of the contract if I need to.

[William769]

1. Is that above the 1000 they booted two weeks ago?

For calling customer service to much?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Roaming isn't free on any Sprint phone that I know of

I live in their world headquarters town and most of the people I know here have Sprint phones. We have 4 of them in our family. I also know a lot of people who work for Sprint. You have to pay to roam, unless you pay an extra fee every month for unlimited roaming (I think it is $5).