Boost Mobile Claims their Monthly Unlimited Plan is Better than Virgin Mobile Plan
April 10, 2009 9:00 AM | Sprint Nextel | Comments (0)
 While the Virgin Mobile plan includes unlimited talk, those looking to send text messages will need to pay an additional $10 per month. Research shows that text messaging is on the rise, closing in on mobile phone calls as consumers’ communication of choice. According to CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association), text messaging traffic grew to more than 75 billion messages per month in the United States in 2008, up from 7.2 billion per month in 2005. | |
In addition to saving consumers more than $200 per year, Boost Mobile’s plan, unlike Virgin Mobile’s plan, offers consumers picture messaging, text messaging, Web access and the popular Walkie-Talkie feature. Boost Mobile offers the fastest national “push-to-talk” network available in the prepaid industry.* More than 90 percent of Boost iDEN customers surveyed say they use nationwide Boost Walkie-Talkie, and 70 percent of those customers use the service daily.
*Fastest claim based on initial call set-up time.
| Boost Mobile | Virgin Mobile | |||||||
| Monthly base advertised price | $50 unlimited talk, text, web & walkie-talkie | $49.99 unlimited talk | ||||||
| unlimited text | Included | $10 | ||||||
| unlimited web | Included | $10 50MB Data Pack | ||||||
| walkie-talkie | Included | n/a | ||||||
| roaming charges (assumes 15 min. travel/month) | None | none | ||||||
| convenience fees | none | none | ||||||
| telecom taxes | Included | $4* | ||||||
| total monthly price | $50 | $73.99 |
*Based on 5% of plan + add-on price; telecom taxes can vary from 2% to 12% depending on jurisdiction. Competitor pricing data current as of 4/9/09.
For more information visit BoostMobile.com.
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