Sprint will split your wireless bill in half if you switch from AT&T or Verizon

Sprint is taking on Verizon and AT&T with a new promotion designed to poach customers from the nation’s largest wireless carriers. Under the offer, which begins Friday, Sprint promises to lower new customers’ monthly bills to half of whatever they paid their old carrier. So if you pay Verizon $140 a month, Sprint will charge you $70 a month for unlimited talk and text. For that price, you’ll also get the same amount of data you were getting from Verizon (or as close to the same amount as Sprint’s plans will allow). Customers who sign up for the deal can lock in the slashed price indefinitely, the company said Tuesday. And, in a nod to previous promotions, Sprint is offering to cover any early termination fees, which can run hundreds of dollars, that switchers might incur for abandoning their old carrier.