Sprint boosting prices for Boost Unlimited

Boost Mobile offers better coverage and a much larger nationwide footprint than either Metro or Leap. So therefore I'm not surprised that Sprint wants to charge a little more for it.

 

I am assuming that the new pricing is the same over all the Boost Markets ? From what I saw before, one market had a base rate of $35, some started at $40, 45 and 50. What would be nice if the whole footprint was included for a flat fee.

 

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I was in walmart yesterday and noticed they had raised their prices by 5.00. I guess boost unlimited is taking away from the more expensive plans.

 

As true as this is Metro and Leap have their own networks built from the ground up. If they were to piggy back on a national carrier then they could do the same as well.

 

what are the boost customers gonna do when iDEN gets turned off?

 

IDEN isn't like analog. There's plenty of time to migrate them. Plus, some of the Boost plans are on CDMA not IDEN

 

well the Boost Unlimited subs are but everyone else including the Boost Premium plan subs are on iDEN and yeah theres no deadline to shut off iDEN but im still convinced that iDEN is just a money pit at this point

 

It really depends on maintenance costs for them. If the equipment isn't dying than leaving it up probably doesn't cost much. Plus, in an interesting way losing customers could make the network more profitable. It takes pressure off the network and leaves room for the more profitable business customers. Where I work we would have to replace all of our in-building antenna's to migrate off of IDEN. We will at some point but people like us probably make the IDEN network worth leaving up for a while.

 

I think Sprint should slowly stomp on Iden then use the spectrum for their other needs.

 

I am just glad Sprint is selling CDMA phones under the Boost moniker now.

 

Even their IDEN system should be working decent now as the loss in customers should greatly improve the reliability of the IDEN network.

 

one of the first times and prolli one of the last times ill ever hear someone say thank god we lost customers...

after the rebanding the capacity just wasnt capable of all those subs anymore

 

In other words, Boost Mobile specializes in reaching out primarily to kids in the ghetto and drug dealers which have caused network overloads and dissatisfaction for high paying traditional Nextel subscribers. In other words, Boost was a way for Nextel to replace highly profitable customers for many high risk, low paying customers. What a great way for a company to accelerate growth to a perfectly stable business at the expense of screwing themselves! (Speaking of Nextel, not Sprint) :lmao:

 

yeah but the beauty of the Boost customers are that as youth they are often high spenders dumping loads of money into the Nextel network gaining access to all the services that are offered

 

I love the "urban youth market." A very key demographic!

 

they spend and spend and spend

 

Well Boost Unlimited is going out of business anyway. They gave it a year but knocked it back to six months. So there's about 5 1/2 months of Unlimited left. (Disgruntled ex employee) They'll deny it if you call them, and half of them probably don't know it, but yeah.

 

yeah a lot of their reps didnt know anything when i had them for like 3 months

 

Is there any truth to the rumor that Boost UL is going to be switching over to the Iden system or (SIM card handsets) as i was told. I heard that Boost UL handsets are no longer in production and that when the existing handsets are depleted from inventory that Boost UL will be coming out with something new (Top Secret.). As far as handset and UL plans plans are concerned.

 

the Boost UL is an effort to start getting Boost customers onto iDEN so that migration will be easier later......why would they backwards convert to iDEN?

 

Just something I heard from more than one person ib=n the wireless world. Only Time will tell if some someone dosent first. The transition is supposed to happen in the 4th Quarter. I thought somebody out there might have some inside info since this actually is the most knowledgeable forum i've come across.

 

oh well i guess we'll see then

 

I guess we have seen