Viewing Single Post From: Boost Mobile to Offer Nationwide Unlimited on IDEN

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offthegrid	Nov 15 2008, 08:07 PM
Member Posts: 42 Group: Members Member #129 Joined: June 27, 2008	Virgin was supposed to have taken a chunk of their IPO money and paid Sprint to knock their ownership position down to 17%. I haven't delved that deep into their corporate reports to verify that but I'm betting that it happened. The downside to IDEN is the network itself. It was designed as a two way radio network with the telephone capabilities as secondary. Boost Unlimited will soon over run the network next year and push the IDEN business users away both from a congestion point and some from a status point. Actually they have to position it lower because the network is so bad. Text delays, callers can't be reached and data under 20k? What century is this? Say anything like that in the Nextel forum and prepare for castigation. Whatever they do it will spice up the product. If they match Virgin for unlimited what if they drop their other plan rates lower than Virgin? Virgin still has 20 cpm for a no fee rate whereas Boost is now a dime. Theres a lot in the middle between unlimited and a dime. Just a side to mharris if Net10 had a qwerty phone that plan would be selling gangbusters. I'm surprised they haven't come up with a bring your own phone flash to Net10 deal yet. Best native coverage, long battery life for gsm phones especially gprs ones and a low package price. The phones are what is missing. But we agree there never was any serious effort to roll it out.


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