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New Boost Mobile Tier Plans Are Real!!!

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i saw this in another forum and didnt believe it but its true!!!

look --> Prepaid Smartphone Plans & No Contract Cell Phone Plans | Boost Mobile

new tier plans!!!

$40=500mb data, unlimited everything else
$50=2.5GB data, unlimited everything else
$60=5GB data, unlimited everything else

idk what this means for the shrinkage plan; there was a rumor it was leaving; and now i see that is entirely possible given the new plans. once i find out more i will post it here

boost is saying that shrinkage isnt included with the new plans. its in their TOC

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ok; looking under the new plans they have the shrinkage plans (idk how long they will last), $50-feature phones, $55-smart phones, $60-blackberry plan only, $45-old blackberry plan; all of these plans cap out at 2.5GB..
 
Those plans have been there the $60 and $45 plans are for blackberry. The $50 and $55 are for regular and smart phones and still unlimited after 2.5 gb it just slows down after that cap
 
kate said:
Looks like the new Boost Mobile plans are identical to the AIO Wireless plans. I wouldn't be surprised if they remove shrinking payments after introducing these new rates.
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thats the same thing i was thinking. my hubby has the shrinkage; he wants to keep it, but how the grandfathering in process will work is unknown. and since he wants the new S5, i think they might make him change-eventually...
 
kskillz said:
That would suck for us that got our plans down
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i think lots of us will be very upset if that happened...im on VM right now and wanted to switch; and get shrinkage; but the $60-5gb is so tempting and the possibility of shrinkage going away just adds to the craziness...
 
in ny state, at&t covers about 10 times the area as sprint. Hence, if prepaid sprint charges same as prepaid at&t ( boost/virgin vs. Go phone/aio/cricket ) , then more people will choose gsm.
 
jaffaffxi said:
Those plans have been there the $60 and $45 plans are for blackberry. The $50 and $55 are for regular and smart phones and still unlimited after 2.5 gb it just slows down after that cap
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These are new plans for smart phones. As you can see each just has a different level of data before it is capped
 
The 60 and 45 are for blackberry phones only as it says in the plan description the 50 and 55 are still the same as they have been and still shrink
 
It is very confusing how they're doing away with Shrinkage. I've gotten several answers from several sources, and honestly it's because Sprint has explained it in several aspects to their people. It's a bit annoying...

June 1st is the first day that Shrinkage will be considered "Expired" for new customers. Existing customers should be able to keep their shrinkage plan until they switch their phones.

I've asked some people to clear up shrinkage for me, but like I said I've gotten several answers. I have heard that people with shrinkage right now WILL BE GRANDFATHERED into keeping it until they want to switch.
 
The 'unlimited' shrinkage plan has been an illusion for me anyway. In my few years with the plan, there were only one or two months where data throughput was consistent enough that even the 'new' lowest tier was possible to achieve.
 
N3vermore said:
I have heard that people with shrinkage right now WILL BE GRANDFATHERED into keeping it until they want to switch.
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I think this is the most likely scenario since this is how phone companies usually handle these changes. Easy to imagine that when you change phones and go to pick your plan that the new tiered plans will be the only option.
 
The choice will be easy for me.

When I am ready for a new phone: GSM carrier.

Too convenient (GSM) and the monthly price will no longer be that different.
 
I hope not.

With shrinking plans, I will (after 18 months) be only paying $40 + $5 tax = $45 to Boost Mobile / month while having 2.5 GB. For me that's enough.

The shrinking payment is a great idea. It makes sure that people will continue to pay them. It gives me an incentive to keep paying because I will be punished if I don't. i.e. losing my streak of on time payments therefore having to start over again.
 
I have paid 40 a month for a long time. I will not be going on the tier plans. June 1st when I get a new phone, I will be going to T-Mobile.
It's to bad though. I have been with boost for a very long time.
 
I was under the impression that they were doing away with Shrinking Payments based upon everyone else's interpretation of the CNET article, but that's no so according to their Facebook page.
 
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