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Sprint SERO x2
Joined: Jun 2007
From: North Carolina, USA
Posts: 525
Back on a old post i posted a while back, a CS person told me that there was going to be new plans very soon that i would like to compete with the others. I kinda want to believe all this. I may dump Boost for this plan.
Supposedly, there's a picture attachment under his claim that shows the other plans. Everyone knows a picture can be manufactured, so I won't be taking it seriously until I see some further proof from somewhere else.
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Verizon AT&T Wireless
Joined: Jan 2004
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Posts: 1,227
I can see it happening. Here me out...
Until recently, Boost ran it's inexpensive unlimited plan on Sprint's CDMA network. Out of the blue, they change their strategy by switching their unlimited plan from CDMA to iDEN.
Would it be out of the question to say that it may have ticked Virgin Mobile off that Sprint allowed Boost to offer such an inexpensive unlimited plan on the same CDMA network that they use? In order to make both parties involved happy, Sprint may have told Virgin Mobile that they can take over the CDMA side of things, while Boost can take over the iDen side of things. This way, both VM and Boost can offer unlimited plans at pretty much the same price...just on different networks.
I know it may sound far fetched, but I am just throwing it out there...
Kolt - I could see that being a pretty likely reason. Boost will no longer promote the CDMA side and is picking up speed on promoting iDEN. So, they'll need to bring people back to CDMA. Either way, Sprint will be doing great business.
The original Boost Unlimited was a regional plan that required 15 cpm for roaming out of region. They have a retentions plan for existing one million Boost Unlimited cdma customers thats $50 for everything plus tax. One of the reasons they went with the IDEN network for the nationwide rollout was there was spare capacity on the IDEN network and adding lots of customers to the CDMA side would have required $$ expanding facilities. $$ is something Sprint is short of these days. Some conflicting info spread out there.
OTOH Virgin is their biggest MVNO and they have a small stake in them (17%). The lack of roaming, unlimited data and top phones would still differentiate this from Sprint's postpaid plans which is something that Sprint has to guard against. The lack of roaming also makes the cost lower so....
I give it a big maybe. If there is anything to this one of the many blogs will get multiple sources to verify. Its only 8 days away so we'll see.
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