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

Viewing Single Post From: Boost Mobile to Offer Nationwide Unlimited on IDEN
offthegrid	Nov 16 2008, 09:37 PM
Member Posts: 42 Group: Members Member #129 Joined: June 27, 2008	When Forsee originally announced Boost Unlimited he said they would roll it out in limited markets where they had excess CDMA capacity and only in markets where Metro and Cricket did not already have a presence. Then they went out and instead went head to head with Metro and Cricket but still only in limited markets. The product never got out of beta because Forsee was a lame duck. I have to believe that the product had a cannibalizing effect on their postpaid customer base. Not everyone needs to roam nationwide. The carriers have used that to raise rates. Based on other areas if Boost Unlimited had been rolled out in my area it likely would have included Sprints New England native coverage area which would meet my needs 98% of the time so why pay $100 a month when I could get away with $70? The other possibility is that the product caused congestion on the cdma network something Sprint could ill afford. I think the new deal is just to put more traffic on the IDEN network and set the company up as a whole to be sold. Vodafone could sell their share in Verizon buy Sprint and have tens of millions cash leftover.


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