Boost Mobile Unlimited

When you choose a cell phone company. The first thing that probably comes to mind is not actually the quality of cell phone service. That might sound weird, because that’s usually the first thing people complain about when it comes to cell phones. But in reality, what tends to happen is that people always want to save money. To be completely honest. I’m pretty much the same way.

About a year ago, I heard about this company called Boost Mobile, which is a pretty interesting company. There are only by Sprint, which means that they are able to use the Sprint network, which is a pretty awesome network. But at the same time, they are offering prices that are even lower than what Sprint offers. That to me is very interesting because it’s sort of like Chevrolet versus Cadillac. Both offer essentially the same car or the same service, but in reality, you end up paying drastically different prices for each one. If the same company selling a very similar product, but if the price is very different.

Boost Mobile is kind of the Chevrolet to Sprint’s Cadillac. They offer a very similar service for much different prices and a completely different model of interacting with their customers. You see, Boost Mobile is what is known as prepaid phone service, which means that you don’t pay after your bill, but rather before. So, when you talk on the phone, the party paid for those minutes.

This is not a new idea, but it is a very interesting idea. The reason that’s interesting is that it means that there are no contracts signed and no confusing long-term or early termination fees and all the extra taxes and things that go with traditional phone service. To put that into terms that anyone can understand, that really means that if they don’t do a good job providing service. You can go to someone else and switch at any time. That kind of pressure means that they have to deliver quality service at a price that you’re happy with.

The biggest price bonus that they offer is with their unlimited plan. With that plan, you only pay one flat fee for all of your phone service. It doesn’t matter if you’re making a phone call surfing the web, or even text messaging. You only pay a single fee for your entire phone usage. To make life even more interesting. It’s actually cheaper than most phone bills that you could possibly have.

That’s right, you end up saving money, and you also end up with potentially better service. How can you beat that?

Prepaid phone service comes with one overarching benefit that is hard to argue with. It is the end of contracts. Contracts are a way that phone companies lock you into their service is out any regard to whether they’re doing a good job or not. A great example of that is the very common experience people have when they get an iPhone.

The iPhone AT&T Failure

The iPhone is a fantastic device. It is far and away the best smartphone on the market, and pretty much every carrier wishes that they had the device. Every year millions of customers sign up to AT&T just so that they can use the iPhone. Yet, for as much new customers as the iPhone has brought to AT&T. It has also brought them many more complaints.

I remember before AT&T had the iPhone. Their service wasn’t too bad. It wasn’t always the absolute best coverage and best service in the country, but was good enough that you really didn’t have a whole lot to complain about. Once the iPhone showed up for service seem to steadily decrease. It could be that there phone service just couldn’t handle the iPhone. It could be that they didn’t continue to invest in their own infrastructure, or it could be that with the rise of apps on the iPhone the amount of data usage was so much disproportionately higher than a traditional smart phone that the network just buckled under the weight of all that data. It’s possible that all of this could be fixed when AT&T moves to their 4G network.

However, as a customer. If you are locked into a two-year contract with them. It didn’t matter that the iPhone was breaking their network. It didn’t matter that you might not be able to get phone calls that you should have always been able to get on your other phone. All that it mattered is that you could not get out of your contract, unless you are willing to pay $175 as an early termination fee. In a way if you are an iPhone customer order any kind of AT&T customer. You are actually being punished for being a loyal customer. Sure, you may have bought the expensive device thinking that it was going to be great on this great network. In reality, you are stuck with a very expensive paperweight that couldn’t even make or receive calls. When you needed it to.

So what does all this have to do with Boost Mobile?

I tell this story because if I were a boost mobile customer and this had happened, I would have been able to just end my phone service and switch to someone else. Instead, I was stuck. Like many people with AT&T for months under my previous contract. When I switched to Verizon. When I brought my own phone, I learned a hard lesson that even if you think you can go without a contract fees major phone companies are going to do everything that they can to get you back into a contract. They charge extra fees. They make your life generally miserable, until finally you sign a contract and will fix everything.

If I had gone with boost mobile in the 1st Pl., I would have avoided the entire ridiculous process with AT&T and Verizon. If Boost Mobile did a bad job, I could’ve just quit them and tried someone else. It would have saved me hundreds of dollars not to mention the fact that Boost Mobile’s phone services actually cheaper than just about every other company. In the end, Boost Mobile offers you freedom and money savings.

Prepaid cell phones or at least cell phone service without a contract is the only way to go. That is the only way to keep these major cell phone companies accountable to their customers. If the customers don’t have the one bargaining chip, that they ought to have, the ability to walk away, then these companies will continue to offer terrible service expensive prices. And there’s not a darn thing anyone can do about it.