you can get out of many fees in life--and always should try--if you make an effort.

It's like fighting speeding tickets. ALWAYS do it, and always start by trying to change the court date! Trust me.

Anyway, here's a tip regarding sprint and any phone gig like it:

I was thinking the other day of whether or not to hook up one more phone and get miles. I recalled having gotten a 10k offer with alaska airlines some time ago on SPRINT. This offer may be long gone but here is something you might want to make sure you do in case you ever thought about ending or cancelling an account that earns miles, and wish to some day go back and do that same service again for more miles! You would need to have some lag time in there, say, several months, before you could earn miles again.

I was online and found out my old sprint.com LD residential account is still open! No bills, no calls, of course, but the acct, the log in and password, and all the info I had in there is still live!

Not only do I wish they had cancelled it for the sake of personal security (I dont want info like this out there if I dont use it at all--even if I do have other accounts online and they all have passwords) but also, because of the miles! If I tried to set up some new Sprint gig, I might NOT get the miles because I ALREADY have an online account!

SO, i called CS and asked to have it closed. I gave a different reason than miles--I told them i have no home phone since my wife works for a cell phone company and we use just 2 free cell phones. I told them I would come back to them in case I ever needed any phone so this prompted good, friendly service. I still had to wait and go thru a few prompts, and eventually got transferred to a sort of tech web CS department. The CSR there was happy to cancel my online nothing account and then I went back into try to log in and got this message:

33311 - The Primery User/Administrator of this account has Deleted this log in...

Good. Now I can rest easy knowing that the next time I need to do Sprint with Alaska or anyone, I could probably start all over again!

MM