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Re: Boost MobileHow so? Does Boost offer a service that somehow enables criminal behaviour beyond voice/text communication? | |
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Re: Boost MobileEasy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track.
"A concern of police and security agencies world wide is that prepaid mobile services allow the user to be anonymous and therefore facilitate criminal or terrorist activities. As prepaid service is not so much sold as re-sold in bulk in the form of sealed cards, there is no technological means to determine the identity of a prepaid phone user." | |
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Re: Boost Mobilesaid by exocet_cm:Easy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track. "A concern of police and security agencies world wide is that prepaid mobile services allow the user to be anonymous and therefore facilitate criminal or terrorist activities. As prepaid service is not so much sold as re-sold in bulk in the form of sealed cards, there is no technological means to determine the identity of a prepaid phone user." This would include every single carrier that has a prepaid service like Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, Virgin and Boost (through Sprint), etc. Why not ban cell phones since criminals can get others to buy them and do strawman purchases like they do for guns. | |
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Re: Boost MobileWhen prepaid cell phones are outlawed, only outlaws will have prepaid cell phones... As for Boost, being tethered to Sprint's network means no service unless you are in a major market or within a few hundred yards of an Interstate. No thanks. | |
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said by RadioDoc: As for Boost, being tethered to Sprint's network means no service unless you are in a major market or within a few hundred yards of an Interstate. No thanks.
Boost uses the iDEN x-Nextel(nexhell) network which is totally different than the Sprint CDMA network. The iDEN network has quite a bit more coverage and sometimes works alot of places that some CDMA carriers (including sprint) don't even in Podunk, USA. Unfortunately until the rebanding is completed nexhell(boost) is one of the biggest RF polluters around. Any one in public safety probably has nexhell/boost and the alphabets at the feds are HUGE users of the iDEN network as their primary and sometimes only communications. | |
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Re: Boost Mobilesaid by rec9140:The iDEN network has quite a bit more coverage and sometimes works alot of places that some CDMA carriers (including sprint) don't even in Podunk, USA. I live in Southern California and I have access to T-Mobile, ATT (Cingular), Sprint and Nextel. Out here, we go out to the desert a lot and I've taken those carriers with me. I can tell you, Nextel beats all the others hands down. The absolute worst is ATT (They actually weren't too bad as Cingular). I haven't been able to test Verizon but hope to soon with a friend who uses them. This is the biggest reason most first responders use Nextel. One thing to always remember, each market is different. My friend in New York likes Sprint, out here it used to sux - but it is better now. Tower build out is the biggest factor in any market. This is why when people ask me about cell phones from places other than San Diego - I tell them to talk to others local to them. | |
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Re: Boost Mobilesaid by meister_sd: This is the biggest reason most first responders use Nextel.
PTT, PTT, PTT. Thats the drive behind the public safety use. Its used as a huge "private channel" network to avoid the existing network which may not have encryption abilities. iDEN also replaced almost all the SMR trunked systems that existed, although private SMR via LTR trunking is making a good comeback in many areas. Sole reason I have a Boost is for the PTT, thats it. I would have to look up the phone number to tell you it. The DC/PTT/walkie talkie is what used 99.99999% Theres been a very few instances in some remote areas where I've had to use it to make a interconnect call in place of my VZW, but I could count that on one hand and have plenty left. PTT is what drives iDEN use more than any thing. | |
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As others have said, how is this different from every single carrier out there that offers prepaid cellular service? Do you mention AT&T as being the criminals choice when threads about the iPhone come up? | |
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said by exocet_cm:Easy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track. Who cares? I swear LEOs and politicians are seeming more and more like paranoid schizophrenics every day that goes by. Everyone's a perp and were out to commit crime, especially if we want a cheap phone with no strings attached. | |
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Just to clear up the issue. This is not necessarily the case depending on the phone you use. Newer (5 yrs old and newer) phones have emergency 911 GPS at a minimum and full GPS is more and more common. Even before GPS, triangulation is pretty accurate. Your travel patterns are constantly tracked and permanently stored. It is much easier than you think to pin down who owns what phone.
But I guess nothing has changed, the less intelligent criminals are why prisons have always been big business since their inception.
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Ooh sounds like a winner to me I like my privacy. | |
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Hi exo! What about non-criminals like myself? I don't have a credit card and no credit in general. They won't accept me for a contracted service(not that I would want to pay the high prices anyways). I want/need a cell so all I have as an option is pre-paid. Now, both Virgin Mobile *AND* AT&T have my name and address ... and their GPS can determine that I am at that same address - unless I go to the store or something. | |
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Re: Boost MobileI... was... joking... Edit: Oh yeah, Hi dadkins , long time no chat | |
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said by exocet_cm:Easy to acquire, cheap to ditch, difficult, if not impossible, to track. "A concern of police and security agencies world wide is that prepaid mobile services allow the user to be anonymous and therefore facilitate criminal or terrorist activities. As prepaid service is not so much sold as re-sold in bulk in the form of sealed cards, there is no technological means to determine the identity of a prepaid phone user." God forbid you have to act like a cop and do your job "investigating" instead of someone doing your work for you? | |
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said by exocet_cm:The Criminal's Choice in Mobile Communication [/BQUOTE What can we expect from a cop? We all know they are not the sharpest tools in the shed? | |
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2009-Jan-15 10:32 am
Re: Boost MobileRelax he was just intending it as a joke. But really, he knows too well many criminals "do" like prepaid.
And I'd rather have him sit next to me then some obnoxious "gangsta" wannabe punk. | |
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2009-Jan-15 9:03 pm
Re: Boost Mobilenow you, yeah your subtle racist remarks get you a spankin, boy'eh!!! | |
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said by 44402812:said by exocet_cm:The Criminal's Choice in Mobile Communication [/BQUOTE What can we expect from a cop? We all know they are not the sharpest tools in the shed? That's awfully funny coming from someone who can't even properly quote another user's post without screwing it up... | |
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Even funnier when someone tries to be critical and does it themselves...
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N3OGH
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2009-Jan-15 4:30 pm
Re: Boost MobileHey, all I did was hit the quote button and type....
Edit. Now that I look at it, there is nothing wrong with it. The error is part of the quote, and not in my post.
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Re: Boost MobileMy comment stands. You pooched the nesting. | |
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2009-Jan-15 7:13 pm
Re: Boost MobileSHRUG | |
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2009-Jan-15 9:04 pm
Re: Boost MobileThe Ref says: It's Official... You Lose. | |
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2009-Jan-15 9:11 pm
Re: Boost MobileDouble SHRUG.
It's an internet message board, not real life.
I don't live here..... | |
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Thanks.. I'll let my brother know he is an idiot. Remember that the next time they save your life or stop a burglar trying to get in your home. | |
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Re: Boost MobileYou can let him know i said the samething. Especially if he works for the PD in my city where Speedway is the "unofficial" sub-station for my area, and they make a big deal out of helping a lady push her car off the 4lane street because it kept them from getting coffee and doing "paper-work" on their cell phones. | |
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Re: Boost Mobilehuh? Try PA my friend... He is not a patrol officer.. He goes after deadbeat landlords and bars.. | |
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said by Smile__:stop a burglar trying to get in your home. Heheh, yeah, right. | |
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Re: Boost MobileAre you the burglar? lol | |
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said by Smile__:Thanks.. I'll let my brother know he is an idiot. Remember that the next time they save your life or stop a burglar trying to get in your home. Well they should? They make enough taxpayer money to sit around in their cruiser, eat doughnuts, give tickets, and cough up an attitude, lol. It's hard being a cop it is one of the few professions where you have job security if you are stupid. | |
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said by exocet_cm:The Criminal's Choice in Mobile Communication Of course since bad things also happen with other products, we should also ban the following. I won't include firearms since I'm sure our esteemed OP LEO takes that as a given. buckets, bath tubs, pools, hot tubs (drowning) fireworks (injury) plastic bags (suffocation) dog collars/leashes (strangling/choking) forks, knives, any sharp pointed objects (injury) The list goes on exponentially as any single item can be "dangerous" in the "wrong" hands. Perhaps Officer Lightbulb should pull his head out of his rear bumper and start living in reality instead of his citation book. | |
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2009-Jan-15 11:28 am
Re: Boost MobileWho is "Officer Lightbulb"? | |
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I don't believe anyone suggested banning anything except you.
Perhaps we should ban keyboards, as they seem to be the primary way you make yourself look like a snide & cynical fool.....
It amazes me how some folks just can't take a "funny".
Lighten up, Francis. | |
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2009-Jan-15 11:26 am
Guys, relax. My one-line comment was more of a joke than anything serious. Relax folks... | |
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I got a Boost phone. So does my girl and plenty of my friends... free calls to them all day.
Save yourself a reply; add a /sarcasm line, holmez. | |
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2009-Jan-15 9:15 pm
Re: Boost Mobilesaid by FiL25:I got a Boost phone. So does my girl and plenty of my friends... free calls to them all day. Save yourself a reply; add a /sarcasm line, holmez. I GOT a Boost phone? That comment speaks for itself.... Try, I HAVE a Boost phone..... | |
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Ridiculous. Hide the Phone - They're Coming
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Seems like a ridiculous issue to me. Should toaster purchases require paperwork and social security number as well? God knows how these people can rewire a damn toaster. Could turn nuclear in no time.
Back in the real world:
I've switched from T-Mobile to Boost, and have no complaints. I was tired of paying too much money and watching my minutes everyday. So far so good. | |
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Sprint invested billions of dollars to fix the interference problem they had with the gov't. The only reason why they were able to keep the network was because they did fix the issue. The network is operating 200 times better than it ever has, thanks to Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint. Why do you think Gary Forsee got canned? He was useless!!! | |
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Very Good NewsI think this is great. They may not have the best product but they now have the easiest to understand pricing and they arguably have the best mix of pricing and product. I am interested. Very interested.
This also can't help but make the market change a bit and add some interesting choices with the other carriers this year. A recession has some positives I guess. | |
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Article MisinformationThe Boost site has the following pricing Unlimited Talk - $50 Talk/Text - $60 Talk/Text/Web - $70 Not that great since it is only in your home area. | |
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Better Phones?All of their phones are bricks and ugly! | |
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Nice but still not as cheap as my old Free-Up planI am still on Verizons old Free-Up prepaid plan. I only have to buy $30 of air time every 60 days. So it works out to $15 a month with rollover and since I have never ran out of minutes in five years that ammounts to unlimited calling for me. | |
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2009-Jan-15 10:29 am
Re: Nice but still not as cheap as my old Free-Up planI use tMobile's pay-go plan - 100 minutes ($100) every *year*. Last year, that $100 lasted me just a couple weeks shy of a full year. This year, it'll probably go a bit quicker as I'm using the phone more.
It's not a good deal on a per/minute basis but $100/year in mobile phone costs is pretty much all my budget can afford! KM | |
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2009-Jan-15 10:21 am
Boost or Bust?A lot of Nextel subscribers credited Boost (a Nextel pay-as-you-go option) for degrading or over taxing the limited Nextel network.
While this plan looks very appealing, I'm sure it won't do much to improve the network's quality if it attracts more subscribers as intended.
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2009-Jan-15 10:33 am
BOOST Unlimited........some harsh comments, but each to his own. As a very light user of cellphone services, I started with Boost 7 years ago on the pay-as-you-go plan. It was almost 2 years ago when they began offering the "unlimited" service for a monthly fee in the California and Nevada markets. I jumped on it, as at the time I was doing a lot of "side jobs" and needed it as a business phone. I've had nothing but excellent service and the value is amazing - and the "unlimited" service runs on Sprint's CDMA network, not the Nextel network that pay-as-you-go uses (both my wife and oldest daughter use the "PAYGO" service and phones). This is basically our primary long distance service to stay in touch with relatives across the country as well as my personal cell phone and I would highly recommend it. YMMV | |
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Re: BOOST Unlimitedsaid by COMMAN: is amazing - and the "unlimited" service runs on Sprint's CDMA network, not the Nextel network that pay-as-you-go uses (both my wife and oldest daughter use the "PAYGO" service and phones).
The new plan offers "unlimited walkie-talkie" thats Direct Connect and thats iDEN only. None of the Boost phones are QChat phones to do CMDA PTT. These plans are for the PayGo and thats iDEN. | |
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Oh no they didint!Boost said, Yo, I dropped a bomb yo, I said, Oh noo you didint! | |
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Desperation on Sprint's partWith Boost being owned by Sprint, this smacks of desperation on Sprint's part. They're likely doing this with Boost instead of Sprint to hide the fact a bit and not to devalue the Sprint brand (as if it could be devalued any more than it has already been), but it still means they're desperate for subs.
I'm willing to bet that, sooner or later, you're going to see Sprint become an unlimited carrier like MetroPCS and Cricket. Either that, or they're going to sell out to another company. | |
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2009-Jan-15 10:59 am
This is amazing...Considering the economic crisis cell phones are becoming a luxury for many people, and this pricing couldn't come at a better time. Unlike Crickit's crappy coverage, Sprint's iDEN coverage is rather impressive so you will have good service in most populated towns. » coverage.sprintpcs.com/I ··· PACT.jsp Click on Nextel devices to see national iDEN coverage. Will it work for everyone? No. Some people will want trendy crap phones like the iPhone and many people live in rural areas where perhaps only Verizon has decent coverage. However for a no-contract unlimited plan with fairly decent coverage and no hidden fees this may change the cell phone market up a bit. It's great for those who just want to talk and text, and don't care much about data services. It's also another blow to local wireline phone providers. I may suggest my parents get this, actually. | |
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Whats all this terrorist crap?Anyone can walk into Radioshack and get a prepaid phone with no way of tracing it. I did it when I got mad at Verizon for dumping newsgroups. I got rid of my $35 a month Verizon cell phone, paid $10 for a prepaid cell phone and put $20 in the account. Paid cash, no ID needed and I could have given them any fake address if I wanted to. You can turn off the phone GPS in the options menu too.
The $25 a month I save pays for a newsgroups account and I am still $15 a month better off. | |
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Re: Whats all this terrorist crap?The thing is, having to provide some sort of identifying information isn't going to stop terrorists (a catch-all word meant to inspire fear these days) from getting a phone. If someone wants a phone that can't be traced, they can do any of the following things:
1. Bring in a SIM from overseas and roam on a U.S. carrier. Expensive but pretty much untraceable. 2. Use forged intentity information, just as they'd use when getting other goods and services. 3. Pay off a store employee somewhere to enter inaccurate identity information when the phone is purchased. 4. Pay a crackhead to use their ID to get the phone for them. The crackhead won't ask any questions. 5. Steal a phone from someone for short-term use. 6. Pay a crackhead to steal the phone. That way, if he gets caught, he won't be linked back to the terrorist. 7.Get a wi-fi phone and use Skype over open hotspots.
The problem with using more and more draconian intrusions into people's private lives is that these measures don't stop those who want to circumvent them. The only people who end up being harmed are law-abiding citizens. | |
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2009-Jan-15 11:56 am
new low price..Assuming this is network wide available, this would be the lowest unlimited calling plan of a carrier with a National footprint. In my experience, the more rural you get with sprint's phones, the worse quality you get or in some cases the network isn't available at all--roaming or not (I'm thinking upstate NY as an example). Still, this is part of their prepaid plans, wouldn't this cannibalize their "contract" plans? Seriously, all they were offering me was 300anytime with free incoming for what amounted to $59 a month after taxes and fees.
What prepaid services do is put the burden of buying a phone back into the consumer's hands, as the carriers often don't subsidize good quality phones. I've left Sprint a long time ago due to quality, pricing and VERY bad customer service problems. Your Mileage May Vary -- some have had good things to say about Sprint.. My last good things to say were about Nextel, not Sprint.. IMO, Sprint never really has been a good cellular carrier. What this may do is Irk already locked down marketshare from Verizon. It may give cost concerned Walkie-Talkie business customers something to think about and squeeze Verizon on in terms of prices.
Verizon has long had a pricing premium that goes along with the best of breed cell phone service. It will be interesting to see if Cablevision-like pricing works in wooing Verizon's customers away.. because the hemorraging that Sprint had the past few quarters of mostly business customers went to Verizon, after the first wave of residential went to AT&T.
ME? I'm on Net10 temporarily (which, in my area is wholesale AT&T service). $30 every 2 months, and I'm good for 300 anytime minutes. That's $.10 per minute prepaid $.05 for text in/out. On many payphones it cost more to make a call than that. Customer service leaves much to be desired, but at least I'm getting what I'm paying for now, instead of trying to haggle with major carrier for a cheap month to month rate.
If a major carrier offers a beter deal, I'll consider it, until then.... fight it out! Hopefully Verizon will strike back in the prepaid wars! They have a marginally better network where I am than AT&T. | |
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I still have the phone, and use it as a watch/timer (I made the mistake of leaving VZW prepaid after getting a prepaid phone from another carrier as a Christmas present), and will, when possible, go back to VZW (even if I have to switch phones). | |
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Bill?How do you pay for service each month? | |
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Re: Bill?most likely attached to CC. Only way. A friend of mine said it deducted from his checking account. | |
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IdiotsI see so much crap being spewed here its not even funny. Quick example would be the change of plans equals new 2 year contract and them not telling you. WRONG they eliminated that a long time ago. I can change my plan monthly and it does not extend my contract.
On top of that I have had verizon and at&t/cingular before and I have never had service thats been better than my sprint/nextel service. Period end of story. I have the ic902 hybrid that uses sprint for cdma and iden for direct connect and it is absolutely fantastic.
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Re: IdiotsNot sure where you are getting your information from navy but Sprint and Nextel are probably close to being the worst cell providers out there. In saying that, Verizon is probably the best. Sprint and Nextel are in the position they are in because they have horrible coverage, that is coming from someone who had there service for over 8 years. Now i am a happy Verizon Wireless customer. Never going back to Nextel. | |
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iDEN is crap in my area.In my area, iDEN is crap. Text messaging never works (within Nextel/Boost/Sprint and also to/from AT&T and Verizon) reliably--messages either never go through, or are so far delayed it's pointless (I had a few messages on iDEN take two whole days to go through) Wireless Internet is painfully slow. Voice is just...okay. | |
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Re: iDEN is crap in my area.said by Carl:In my area, iDEN is crap. Text messaging never works (within Nextel/Boost/Sprint and also to/from AT&T and Verizon) reliably--messages either never go through, or are so far delayed it's pointless (I had a few messages on iDEN take two whole days to go through) Wireless Internet is painfully slow. Voice is just...okay. Then don't use it. See? That was easy. | |
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Re: iDEN is crap in my area.said by BillRoland:said by Carl:In my area, iDEN is crap. Text messaging never works (within Nextel/Boost/Sprint and also to/from AT&T and Verizon) reliably--messages either never go through, or are so far delayed it's pointless (I had a few messages on iDEN take two whole days to go through) Wireless Internet is painfully slow. Voice is just...okay. Then don't use it. See? That was easy. I actually have a Sprint SERO account and a Nextel SERO account, in addition to an AT&T GSM account. iDEN is great for what it is, and I swore by it at one time, before the network went to crap in my area. I was simply mentioning that people who may buy it to take advantage of the unlimited messaging or web may be disappointed by the way iDEN performs with those services. iDEN is just fine for voice, and users who purchase this to take advantage of the unlimited voice should be happy. -CRS- | |
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Boost is done_ Sprint isnt far behindWhen price drops like this its time to get ready to switch to a different service. This is sprint weak attempt at relevance. So i guess this time next year we will be wondering who will be buying sprints assets. Hey Sprint heard of LTE ? | |
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What About Unlimited Pics?It didn't say anything about MMS. Anyone know if this will include unlimited picture messaging? | |
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nunyaLXI 483 MVM join:2000-12-23 O Fallon, MO ·Charter
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nunya
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2009-Jan-15 1:40 pm
A *happy* (gasp) Nextel customerI have 2 Nextel phones and 1 AT&T phone. My Nextel works in many places the AT&T 3G phone drops off the network. I've not encountered vice versa.
I'm clinging to Nextel SERO accounts. Being a contractor, PTT is a must. Every other contractor in the area is still on Nextel PTT. I know other companies have PTT, but nobody uses it. Nextel cornered the market waaaaaay earlier.
While Nextel had a rocky set-up period for me (due to SERO issues), I haven't had any billing issues (unlike AT&T, who can F#$% up a bill every month for the duration of a contract) or service issues.
I would consider going with the Boost plan if I could keep my PTT #'s and my phone #'s. I'm not sure if they'll do that, but I may try. I'd really like to have the text and unlimited talk (my wife goes over our plan all the time). | |
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Re: A *happy* (gasp) Nextel customeryou can get unlimited PTT but only on select phones. Some phones are CDMA some are iDEN so it depends on the phone you get from what their site looks like now: www.boostmobile.com | |
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