Boost Mobile BlackBerry Unlimited Monthly Service Plan
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.