Boost Mobile debuts $50 unlimited voice/data plan

Motorola should make a couple of smartphones with push-to-talk for Boost Mobile. They make stripped down versions of their Nextel's for Boost. Do the same with the smart phones. Heck make them for the MVNO'S...I have Motorola's Deluxe IC902. I like it's performance, call quality and capabilities. I would like to call it a smartphone but it is a handset. Any way - this new pricing plan will get Boost more suscribers per quarter. I was on their $50 unlimited plan before they did away with it. A lot of people were upset with Sprint. They should get rid of the web on their phones and put a real internet format instead. That would be appealing too. Make Opera Mini the official browser - sounds enticing to me!!!

I TEXT MYSELF FROM MY BOOST MOBILE CDMA PHONE.. EVERYTHING WORKS! ALWAYS HAVE BARS! TEXT MESSAGES ARE SMOOTH!

I TEXTED FROM MY KRZR CDMA TO THE IDEN .. (i776)
TEXTED THE IDEN @ 7:19PM

MESSAGE CAME IN @ 7:36PM !!!! PACIFIC STANDARD TIME!!!!

I TEXTED MY KRZR PHONE TO MY GIRL'S T MOBILE PHONE AND BOOM! RIGHT AWAY, SHE GOT THE TEXT.. AND SHE REPLIED.. GOT THE MESSAGE IN SECONDS!!.. SO IT ISN'T THE CDMA PHONE!

WEAK WEAK WEAK ... BOOST IDEN HAS FAILED.. I CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE...
AND THEY SAID A CELL TOWER IS DOWN AND THAT SHE CAN'T TROUBLE SHOOT MY PHONE BECAUSE IT WILL SET ME BACK! ??? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THE TOWER WILL BE UP AGAIN IN MY AREA! LOL..

I CALLED 4 DAYS AGO AND THEY TOLD ME THE SAME THING.. I BOUGHT SERVICE THE SAME DAY IT CAME OUT! ALWAYS HAD THE SLOW TEXT PROBLEM!

I CALLED MYSELF 2 TIMES! WENT TO VOICEMAIL! LOL

WEAK ASS PHONE!

BAD SERVICE.. I'M GOING TO KEEP THIS PHONE TILL THE END OF THE MONTH AND THEN I'M GOING TO SELL IT TO SOME OTHER SUCKER! I'M A SUCKER FOR BUYING THIS! I'M KEEPING MY CDMA PHONE.. THE KRZR IS SLOW.. BUT IT HAS BARS EVERYWHERE!

I keep having slow text issues. The first time I called in they said that sometimes it takes roughly around 96 business hours for your text plan to activate when first buying the new unlimited plan. Well after a week finally I got my text package working, I started using it, got like 200 texts in 2 days and bam suddenly I can't receive texts anymore. Well about 2 hours later my texting starts back up again, I think it's the monthly switch or something, but any old texts that my phone did not download have now been lost in limbo. I think this could be a great plan if they simply fixed the service!!

i have the i776w! it sucks i just got this stupid plan and changed from verizon and it doesnt even work! today i made more than 7calls and tehy still havent helped me! im so pissed. not only cant i not receieve texts but now i am not able to make or receieve any phone calls! i called the care number and they said they are experiencing towers problems! their servcie sucks ima just wait for the month to end and go back w/verizon!
ughhhhhh

anyone else having problems with boost mobile 50 unlimited? only works on and off, when people call they receive error message.

O MY GOD! SAME JUST GOT BOOST AND THEY SAID THE SAME DAM THING A TOWER IS DOWN HOW MANY TOWERS ARE UP IS THE DAM ?KNOW SERVICE ANY WHERE!THIS COMPANY IS A SCAM AND KEPT ME ON THE PHONE FOR 3HOURS AND DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON THE PHONE IS BRAND NEW!How do you not know whats going on!I think peaweherm bought the company and is running it!WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have the i776 on the 50 unlimited service and have not had any problems besides some texts goin to sms instead of my inbox
but other then that everything has been good.

i have a I335 (yeah, i know) anyway. the phone is fine. i just can't get some TEXT messages to come thru. I keep getting this FAILED TO RECIEVE MESSAGE. WTF!!??!?!?! Other than that. I have notice if i turn it off, then back on again i get 5-20 new messages. boooo booo oooooooo

I'm paying too much with my nextel and I want to switch to Boost mobile, I can move my number to Boost?? I'm still under contract with nexel. Does anyone Know?? please let me know.

Boost mobile sucks... try to make calls and keep getting the message "the number you are calling is out of service, please try your call again later." It takes me 15 to 20 attempts to get through.. Horrible service!!!

I bought the I-335 phone from boost. Service was good for the first month. Now when I call out I get a message saying the number or code I dialed is incorrect. When people call me all they get is a busy signal. I have contacted customer service several times and they always say they are experiencing outages and the problem will be resolved by 9pm. Its been a week....i wonder which 9pm they were talking about. Oh and good luck getting a refund. This company will scam you.

You are all damn stupid. It isn't the phones that are the problem. Everyone jumped on the same cheap as they can get band wagon, Now the network is over loaded and you can't get anything through. Boost gets loads of money from you people for a service it can't provide. You get to talk to some dumb ass phone agent that gets paid 3/day to tell you nothing can be done and you keep paying your money. There is no way to contact the corporation directly, and you can't sue them because you aren't on a contract and just by turning on the phone you agree that if you don't get service it's your problem. Motorola makes cheap phones for a cheap company.
Meanwhile real smart people pay good money to companies like Verizon on contract and get decent service and the privilege of reimbursement for service. Oh by the way DO NOT USE IT FOR BUSINESS. You will lose calls and by the simple act of adding funds to your account you agree not to use your phone for anything commercially related, including getting callbacks if you are looking for a job. Read there "Unreasonable use policy. They got you by the balls man

"when I call out I get a message saying the number or code I dialed is incorrect. When people call me all they get is a busy signal." 9 out of 10 times this issue can easly be addressed without calling customer service all you need to do is go in to advanced settings and make sure that the Baud Rate is set on Auto.

Boost started their new service 01/22/2009. Bought a cell phone on 02/15/2009. Was not told there was a problem with the service. Started having a problem with dropped calls. Called on Tuesday 05/12/2009 was told the problem would be cleared up 32-36 hours. Called back on 05/15/2009 was told the have no idea when the problem will be cleared up. It seems that the more people coming bumps people already in the system. Engineers are working on the problem. Have not as of yet picked up the ticket on this one. My question is two fold, first, should the Nextel phone store informed me of the problem with dropped calls as I might have reconsidered purchasing the Boost plan. Second does this situation fall into fraud in the inducement and breach of contract? I was told to be patient and I have received 20.00 discount for lack of service. But I am still highly annoyed with this sitation. I feel I was at best misinformed or worst lied to.

I did have Sprint PCS for years and never could make a phone call from inside my House drops call and all other crap paying premium for service. As soon as the contract end I did the move to Boost mobile 2 years ago. I did get the Motorala rzr 1km from Boost and I never had a problem again. I disconnect my house phone because never was in use. A few weeks ago I did check the New Service Unlimited that included Push to talk (PTT) and decide to test it and make the move buying the Motorolla i465. I did have to change the phone number but Now I dump my work Nextell and using only one phone for personal private and work. Saving around 120 a moth when I cancel home phone service and Nextell business.

I465 PTT text and picture, email to email account, text to other phones and emails. All that crap for just $50.

Forget to mention that I am talking my brains out driving from Miami to Palm Beach every day (this is talking almost 3 hours a day without interruption)

Boost work for me.

I am not getting my text messages!!!

there are 2 sides of the boost network there is the i-den side (push to talk) and there is the cdma side (sprint pcs) back in the old days boost marketed both sides of the network but because of a decline in traditional customers on the i-den (nextel) side of the network sprint the parent company of boost started losing some serious money as all there old nextel customers began to transition to the sprint pcs only side of the network they had to find a way to fill the void in the old nextel network. so boost stopped making new cdma phones and stoped marketing the cdma boost mobile service and began the process of trying to covince boost cdma customers that if they switch to the i-den network they would receive all these perks for doing so such as cooler phones and better plans. well as more and more new and existing boost customers switch their service over to the i-den network it has been creating mass outages and errors across the board. the i-den network is a 2g digital network when it was designed it was original suited for public safety and commercial phone service it was never designed for web or text and there really is no room in the design of the network to change that. now the cdma boost mobile runs on the sprint pcs side and is a 3g network designed for high speed data and texting and broadband use. so that is why the old krzr and w385 phones are lightning fast compared to the new i425. you can still buy and activate boost mobile cdma phones you just have to find them on e-bay or amazon and you can still get the unlimited plan you can even activate and sprint smart phone on the boost cdma network if you allready have a account with them just google activate sprint phone on boost network there are hundreds of posts that describe how to do it. if you are looking for good voice and text as well as data buy the boost cdma phone it does not have a full keyboard but you will be amazed at the coverage and quality. i do not expect the i-den side of the network to get much better so you can expect the same errors and dropped calls but beware boost has stopped making new cdma phones so if you can find one do not pass it up they will still activate it and service it but they are getting hard to find

I have always been a prepaid customer. My phone needs are constantly changing, making a contract uneconomical and impossible for my lifestyle. Boost isn't the greatest as far as the service goes, and I have been a customer of Virgin, Verizon, and Alltel. Boost has to be at the bottom of the list. But in harsh economic times like this, I'm willing to deal.

5 main things i am most annoyed about from Boost:

STATIC NEAR COMPUTER SPEAKERS: Keep ANY phone with a Boost SIM away from computer speakers. they will emit an unbearable static when you phone is sending/receiving text/calls.

TEXT: Most of the time it's alright. But at least 20% of the time, texts "fail to download", or "cannot be sent". One day, I was unable to send any messages at all.

SIGNAL: fluctuates and is inconsistent. I can have all bars one minute, and in the same exact spot the next minute, I will be out of service.

PHONES: **WAY** overpriced for their quality and design. Cheaply made phones with almost iPhone-level prices. Have you seen how much the i9 goes for?! It's basically the RAZR all over again, which has become the standard all phones nowadays are expected to either meet or exceed as far as features and design (flip style, thin, light, internal antenna, camera, etc). No phone should be $300 unless it's got Inspector Gadget style acessories, is waterproof, fireproof, bomb proof, and virtually indestructible. All joking aside.

FEATURES: Boost phones are practically void of the essential tools even the most basic phones have. Alarm clock, calendar, calculator, notepad... just aren't there. This is simply unacceptable.

All in all, I am a customer of Boost because my needs at the moment require it's plan and its affordability. If my needs change, which they most likely will, I may change carriers again.

I bought the BB 7520 and changed my plan to Boost Mobile 50/month. WOW, This is the biggest mistake that I have ever made!!!! DONT DO IT!!!
And yes they are getting paid $3/Day because the reps dont speak english. They use rob voices to translate their voice.

I can never use text on IDEN Boost unlimited. It truly sucks! They havent fixed it. Its still not working!!!!!

Boost mobile r more like bootlegg mobile. somrtimes u dont recieve text and it takes quite some time for the download of textes. For customers to recieve services offer and doesn't work properly the least u carriers can do is offer a percentage off or add 5.00 to customers account. Something to let the customers know u value thier services. You all don't care because it not a contract and that's incorrect any time you are paying for service their are always contracts are lawsuits. You guys bring in the money yet we the customers suffer. That's Enron all over!!! Get it together boostmoobile and keep on making billions and satisfying your customers make them feel appreciated. Metro are go n to come soon and their service are cheaper. I rather have problems with a cheaper plan than to have to pay more for service that sucks. Plenty of customers are go in to drop boostmobile if you guys don't take care of your customers fast some other carriers will!!!! To you all it's all about the money. Get it together peoples!!!!!

wow. this makes me glad i didnt switch. guess i'll stay with tmobile

scarce network here, but does work in my home area, will look at other options later I think. for now is ok.

scarce network here, but does work in my home area, will look at other options later I think. for now is ok.

BOOST IS NOT WHAT IT IS CRACKED UP TO BE!!! I CANT SEND OR RECEIVE TEXTS. IT STARTED YESTERDAY AND WHENEVER I CALL THEY SAY A TOWER IS DOWN IN MY AREA OR THEY SAY TURN THE PHONE OFF AND THEN TURN IT BACK ON IN TWO MINUTES. WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!

I was paying $70 a month with Sprint for my i880 and getting only 400 minutes, free nights and weekends and their "Web Pack"?!?! $50 a month for unlimited everything works for me. The service basically stayed the same. It was crappy before and its crappy now, but at least its cheaper.

hace 3 meces estoy con la compania cuando compre el telefon teng el i9 espesifique que necesitaba que el telefono me sirbiera en puerto rico por que viajo mucho a esa parte del pais y me aseguraron que no habia problema y en este momento me encuentro hace 3 dias incomunicada por que no sirve no hay comunicasion q por q mi telefono tiene radio que ni lo e usado ni una sola vez y nadie me da una esplicasion coerente aqui en puerto rico en radio shac me digeron q ni lo ofresian por que la gente se esta quejando de la misma situacion o sea que es una MIERDA

My i776 motorola phone works fine except. I can not text on it. When i try to text the the auto text kicks in and the msg come out pre texted. please tell me how to turn this feature off.

Go to the menu on your phone while you are in your text window and switch from "word" to "alpha" than you'll be able to text in single letters

Go to the menu on your phone while you are in your text window and switch from "word" to "alpha" than you'll be able to text in single letters