Boost Mobile Unlimited

The entire cell phone industry is wrong and Boost Mobile intends to fix it.  Do you hate your contract?  Do you hate the fact that if you want to cancel early because your carrier is giving you bad service that you can’t?  Do you hate those early termination fees?  If you answered any of these questions is yes then you probably should be looking at a less traditional phone company.  You probably should be looking at Boost Mobile and the Boost Mobile Unlimited plan.

Boost Mobile is a prepaid cell phone company, which really just means that they let you prepay for your service instead of paying for the service after the fact.  Most cell phone companies want you to pay after each month because then they get to charge you based on your usage.  If you go over your minutes what are you going to, do not pay for them?

Of course not.

Cell phone companies completely understand the consumer mindset of well, if I go over a little with just one month and so they can overcharge you, by quite a lot. Boost Mobile and other prepaid phone companies have a very different way of looking at the customer relationship. Boost Mobile wants to actually make you happy as their customer.

You see, a happy customer is a paying customer, and in the business that Boost Mobile is in, they are only going to be able to keep you as a customer if they can keep you happy.  If you don’t like the service that they are providing.  You can switch any time, which puts a premium on their ability to deliver quality service.  Personally, I’ve always thought that phone companies are able to take a damage of their customers as they make it so hard and so expensive to be able to switch providers.

Have you ratchet tried to switch phone companies?  It doesn’t seem so bad until you start looking at the early termination fee on your two or three year contract.  Oh wait, does any other member of your family have a phone with that company, while the net means that they have a separate contract with a separate timelines and expiration date on it.  Thus, if you want to switch.  Its going to cost you the early termination fee, multiplied by the total number of lines that you have with the company.

Yup, that means that you are stuck with that company until your contract runs out in less you are willing to pay.  The very expensive, early termination fee is a way to keep you as a customer.  Whether you like it or not.  What kind of business models that?

As a customer, I want a phone company that is worn to provide me quality phone service at a reasonable price, that isn’t going to make me mad.  That doesn’t sound by any means unreasonable to me, and apparently it doesn’t sound unreasonable to Boost Mobile.

See, Boost Mobile has created a whole new kind of prepay plan, which I’m extremely excited to try at some point. What they have done is they say that you can have an entire Unlimited phone use package for $50 a month. That’s it. Unlimited talk, unlimited text, unlimited internet for only $50 a month.

If you are a Blackberry user, they have a similar plan for $60 per month.  When you compare that to other phone companies you would probably end up spending more like $100-150 per month for the exact same service.  Did I mention that the cost is per phone? If you have more than one phone that uses unlimited texting or Interne, it’s going to cost you a truckload of money that other cell phone companies.

That’s one so excited about this new movement in the telecom industry.  Even though progress is slow, it seems like these companies are finally starting to realize that they can’t treat their customers like ATM machines.  Slowly but surely customers are getting the idea that they can’t just put up with their phone company, doing whatever they want and think that it’s okay.  It’s very much not okay.

What people really need to do is they need to take a stand and say that they’re no longer going to put up with these ridiculous to win three year contracts to everyone seems to think is an absolute requirement to have a basic cell phone service.  People need to stop being willing to pay $.10 or $.20 per tax.  Or perhaps a flat 20 or $30 a month just to send basic text messages on their phones.  If I told you how much that is costing you per kilobyte or megabyte or gigabyte versus what it actually costs them to send it you would throw a fit.

No, the future of phones is not in long contracts and expensive plans.  In a few years almost everyone’s phone will simply be an Internet communication device that all calls and video and web browsing is all just sent through the Internet.  This and that would mean that you only have to pay one low monthly fee to get all your services, and you wouldn’t be charged separately for Internet or voice or texting.  For that matter, we shouldn’t be charged separately for each of those services as it is right now.

Unfortunately, that wonderful future is not yet reality.  Cell phone companies are still taking horrible advantage managing their customers and the FCC seems to be willing to let this go for the most part.

So, until we get to the point where we have just one flat rate for all communications, the best we can do is to support services like Boost Mobile. It’s a reasonable $50 per month, which is probably less than you are paying right now.  As far as I can tell, the Boost Mobile Unlimited plan is the best deal I can find for cell phone service in the market. The only real competitors on price and service are the other prepaid companies. Even still, Boost Mobile is backed by the Sprint network, so it’s hard to beat both the price and the service.

Boost Mobile is really on the cutting edge when it comes to prepaid mobile phone service, and with their latest announcement of the Boost Mobile BlackBerry Unlimited Monthly Service Plan they have gone ahead and taken it to the next level as far as I’m concerned. You see, up until now, boost mobile has carried out considered to be mostly feature phones, that is to say phones that are focused around one features such as being able to play music or text messaging with a QWERTY keyboard. Now that Boost Mobile has the BlackBerry Curve, the whole game is changed.

Just out of curiosity, once I saw this on the boost mobile site.  I decided to look around to other providers such as Straight Talk and T-Mobile to see what their competitive plans would be.  What I found was quite startling.  For a mere $60 a month boost mobile offers their Blackberry Unlimited plan, which means unlimited e-mail, Internet texting phone calls, you name it.  If you try and get a similar plan on a company like T-Mobile .  You’re likely to spend something like $80 per month. That’s a whole $20 per month.

Over the course of a year, a simple savings of $20 per month actually works out to about $240. Right now the Boost Mobile website lists the BlackBerry Curve for $249.99. Thus, after a year the savings on your plan basically pays for the phone. Oh, and I forgot to mention, the T-Mobile plan was the contract-free plan, so you’d still have to pay full price for the BlackBerry on T-Mobile’s network. Right now the BlackBerry Curve on T-Mobile’s network is running $279.99 without contract. So, we’ll call that even.

If you were to use the BlackBerry Unlimited Monthly Service on Boost Mobile, you would probably end up saving yourself about $500 over two years compared to even the cheapest deal I could find on a traditional carrier.  I’m not even going to go into the numbers for how expensive it would be on Verizon or AT&T because the only way to make a good comparison there is if you start getting into the whole free phone, including a contract debacle.  I don’t like phone contracts, and neither should you.

What all this means is that if your Blackberry user, you could probably save yourself quite a bit of money.  Get some great service.  And maybe, just maybe, stick it to the man for once.  As a customer, we don’t get to do that often enough.  But every once in a while, a deal like this comes along that just seems like the way to go.

Also, if you look at other prepaid phone services.  You’ll find that most of them don’t even offer smart phones.  I’m not quite sure why because in this recession.  It seems like businesses would really want to save money and prepaid phone service is a great way to save money.  But maybe they just think that people don’t like saving money or that the phones are too expensive for their target market.  However, if you’re a small business owner who wants e-mail on the go.  It seems like this would be a great option for you.

You aren’t stuck in a contract, you don’t have to pay too much for the phone, and the savings that you save actually ends up paying for the phone over time anyways.  Best of all, if you don’t like the service you can always switch to someone else.  If you were to have an employee who join your business, you could probably just get them a prepaid phone from boost mobile to use for communication, if need be, and then when they left the company.  You can just cancel the plan.  Actually, I misspoke.  There is no plan to cancel.  Isn’t that great?

If you’re wanting a crackberry err I mean BlackBerry, you should really look at the Boost Mobile BlackBerry Unlimited plan. It looks like a great money saver and if you still want a smartphone, it’s a great way to get email on the go for cheap(relatively speaking). Now, if only they would put the Palm Pre or an Android phone on the Boost Mobile network.