Boost Mobile

Network: Sprint iDEN (Nextel)

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Website: www.boostmobile.com
Customer Service: 1-866-402-7366

Claim to fame: “Where You At”, their old-time slogan, was due to Boost being the only prepaid carrier to have GPS and nationwide walkie-talkie service on all their phones. If you’re looking for instant connections with friends, this provider is great. They also have the nation’s cheapest nationwide unlimited-everything plan: $50, with no extra taxes or fees.

Overview: Boost Mobile has turned some heads with one of the hottest prepaid offering in market today.  Their $50 unlimited talk, text, walkie-talkie and data web plan is priced lower than any postpaid or prepaid wireless plan. With more consumers now being cost conscience about their monthly wireless spend, this new plan has taken the market by storm.

If you are someone that likes to talk and text on their mobile phone and are looking for real value and monthly cost savings, then this can very well be your plan.  For those that don’t need that much talk or text time or have a lower budget, Boost Mobile also offers a simple $.10 a minute talk or text pay-as-you-go plan and a $1 per day plan that gets you unlimited text, mobile-to-mobile and unlimited nights and weekends along with the standard $.10 per minute.

Boost Mobile offers a quality line of handsets starting at $49.99.  If you are looking for a higher end phone then the Motorola i9 and the i465 are two high packed feature phones. While the phones are a bit pricey, you’ll soon forget cost when you add up the yearly savings you get with their $50 Unlimited Plan

Pros: Boost Mobile offers several different plans designed to fit all types of customers calling needs and monthly budget. The $50 unlimited plan is probably the best deal in wireless today if you are looking for an unlimited plan, especially one with no contact or credit check.

Cons: The web access is 2G and much slower than many of their 3G competitors. There has also been some issues with slow text deliveries, but that has supposedly been fixed and addressed.

Recommended: These plans fit across all types of users. It’s hard to beat the $50 Unlimited when you compare it to the competition. The $1 a day plan can be perfect for the teenager that likes to text and talk on the weekends and even better if their friends and family members are on Boost Mobile also. Good plan for those customers that expect to only use 50-100 minutes each month, since all airtime refills come with a 90-day expiration

PLAN SELECTION

Monthly – unlimited
Unlimited talk, text, web, walkie-talkie
$50 per month, no extra taxes or fees (unlike many monthly prepaid plans and nearly all contract plans)
$10 more per month for the following extra unlimited features:

• International texting
• Walkie-talkie roaming into Canada and Baja Mexico on the Nextel and Telus Mike networks
• Walkie-talkie calling to and from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru

Daily – chat & text
Unlimited nights and weekends (starting at 9 p.m.)
Unlimited mobile to mobile (Sprint, Boost, Nextel)
10¢ per minute otherwise (not mobile to mobile, not nights and weekends)
Unlimited text messaging
$1 per day, charged only on days you use your phone
MMS (picture, audio, video messaging) for 25¢ per message
Nationwide Walkie-Talkie for $1 per day, only on days when a walkie talkie call is sent or received
Web access for 35¢ per day as long as the service is enabled

Daily – pay as you go
10¢ per minute
10¢ per text message
25¢ per MMS message
$1 per day of Nationwide Walkie-Talkie
35¢ per day of web access

International Rates
Long Distance
Walkie Talkie

PHONE SELECTION
Motorola i9 (slim Razr-style flip phone with video-capable 2 megapixel camera and MP3 player) – $299.99 (black red)
Motorola i290 (rugged bar phone) – $49.99
Motorola i335 (rugged bar phone with Bluetooth) – $59.99
Motorola i776 (external-antenna flip phone with Bluetooth and camera) – $99.99 (regular white)
Motorola i465 (messaging bar phone with full QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 megapixel camera and Bluetooth) – $129.99
All phones include web browsing, GPS, IM, text and MMS messaging, speakerphone and Nationwide Walkie-Talkie capability

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