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This will sell well!!!!

Cellenator

Feb 2, 2009, 10:55 AM
The only thing Boost was missing was a decent phone...especially now with the unlimited everything plan for boost for 50 bucks this phone will bring in the business.
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Jayshmay

Feb 2, 2009, 11:09 AM
I have a question, is Boost an MVNO? Or a subsidiary of Sprint? Cause this article kinda confuses me.
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stoopered

Feb 2, 2009, 11:31 AM
It runs off the Sprint iden network.
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Jayshmay

Feb 2, 2009, 1:07 PM
I know that, but is Boost an MVNO, or a subsidiary of Sprint?
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cellphonesaretools

Feb 2, 2009, 3:20 PM
Boost is not an MVNO, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprint-Nextel. It is simply another brand within the Sprint-Nextel corporation, just as Scion is the "youth brand" established within Toyota.

Boost was created & owned by the original Nextel, before its merger with Sprint. Nextel internally spawned the Boost Mobile brand to try to capture the youth market and increase its future growth potential. Although the Nextel brand still had very strong growth numbers before the merger, the rate of increase in their growth was slowing, and the handwriting on the wall was that the hottest growth potential was a youth-oriented brand. But it was all owned by Nextel, created internally by Nextel, and ran exclusively on Nextel's own iDEN network.
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Cellenator

Feb 2, 2009, 12:19 PM
Jayshmay said:
I have a question, is Boost an MVNO? .


Yes
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Versed

Feb 2, 2009, 1:52 PM
Cellenator said:


Yes


Well not really, its basically pre-paid Nextel, and its owned by Sprint.
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Jaden10

Feb 2, 2009, 4:37 PM
Actually yes Boost Mobile is. It is true that it is owned by Sprint Nextel. BUT, Boost Mobile originally started as a MVNO in Australia.

Definition of MVNO..

A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a company that provides mobile phone service but does not have its own licensed frequency allocation of radio spectrum, nor does it necessarily have all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile telephone service.

A company that does have frequency allocation(s) and all the required infrastructure to run an independent mobile network is known simply as a Mobile Network Operator (MNO)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVNO »
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