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Boost Mobile Aligns CDMA Unlimited Service with iDEN Unlimited
Boost Mobile has announced in a press release that it will make sweeping changes to the Unlimited by Boost regional CDMA cellular service available in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas in order to align it with the iDEN Unlimited service.
First, Boost has eliminated the Home Calling Area and the associated 15 cent/minute roaming charges, now allowing for nationwide roaming on the entire Sprint network at no additional cost.
In addition, existing customers on the UNLTD $50 Unlimited Talk, $60 Unlimited Talk & Text or $70 Unlimited Talk, Text & Web will receive up to a $20 price drop by being automatically moved to the new $50 unlimited plan that now includes voice, messaging and Web access, mirroring the unlimited iDEN pricepoint, while customers on the introductory $35 Unlimited Talk, $40 Unlimited Talk & Text or $45 Unlimited Talk, Text & Web will remain on their current plans with no changes.
Because of this realignment and differences in billing systems between CDMA and iDEN according to Boost, customers on the newer UNLTD plans will continue to pay taxes in addition to their monthly cost and a convenience fee will continue to be charged to customers when replenishing their account in-store. Finally, new UNLTD customers will no longer be offered the first month of service free, eliminating a commpetitive bullet point against regional flat-rate carriers Cricket and Metro PCS.
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Seems like thsi will cut into the Simply Everything customers.
Are we able to use any CDMA phone that we want or will they have specific phones that you pick from?
$50 bucks for everything on Sprints network is a steal!
The lineup is is fixed to specific Boost-branded CDMA phones like the W385, KRZR, and other phones but the CDMA service is no longer actively promoted nor are new devices being released on Boost CDMA. This was done to ease customer complaints about unequal pricing.
I’m reading that they are activating new lines on the CDMA Boost plans
That’s correct, Boost never stopped offering UNLTD CDMA plans. They simply stopped actively promoting them.
Although Boost has stop actively promoting CDMA plans, they’re yet to release, and have stopped sales of actual phones (e.g. Motorola W385, Krzr) So there is no way a current customer can “upgrade” or fix/repair they’re previous phone. They are directed to switch over to the new iDen, this is fine, but one small problem, they dont allow you to carry over your phone number! You must establish a new one. Its 2009, lets get it together.
Raymond, you can now port between Sprint CDMA and Boost Mobile iDEN. That should fix the issue with UNLTD customers not being able to port in-between plans.
[...] a good deal anymore. Sprint’s Boost Mobile now offers its $50 unlimited data and voice plan on their CDMA 3G network. And, many are finding that they can activate any Sprint CDMA phone with relative ease… [...]
You must first start your account with a Boost CDMA phone. You can get an inexpensive one on ebay. I got one for $10. It’s not a flawless, a little beat up but it works. After you establish your account on your new Boost phone you can port your boost number to your Sprint CDMA phone. Call Customer service and tell them you want to move your service on a different phone. They will have you give them the ESN or IMEI located under the battery. The customer service agent will have you press ##3282# on your phone to begin setting up your phone. The first two reps I got had me press ##101740#. It did nothing and they said the phone must be bad. That was not the case. They were not giving me the right instructions. The third customer Rep I got knew what she was doing. ##101740# is used but later on in the setup. I hope this helps whoever wants to setup a Sprint CDMA phone on Boost. I did this for my son because he was killing my Verizon account. I am about to drop Verizon and go BOOST!