Sprint changed their fee structure in time for the holidays, starting in January Sprint will eliminate some goverment fees, which will result in a smaller bill for most people. However these goverment fee’s will be replaced by new Administrative fees.

Sprint Nextel is charging the Administrative Charge to help defray various costs imposed on us by ther telecommunications carriers, including, but not limited to, charges imposed by local telephone companies for delivery of calls from our customers to their landline customers and for certain network facilities and services we must purchase from them. The Regulatory Charge is being assessed to help defray the costs of various federal, state, and local regulatory programs. These charges are not taxes and are not amounts we are required to collect from you.

So at the end of the day you save little to nothing at all.