Boost Mobile's "Unlimited Gigs" are still $50 a month for a single user, but the second, third, fourth and fifth service line only cost $25 each.
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Boost Mobile's "Unlimited Gigs" are still $50 a month for a single user, but the second, third, fourth and fifth service line only cost $25 each.
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The mid-range is also on Sprint's prepaid operation, Boost Mobile, for a one-time payment of $79.99 — an introductory discount of $20.
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The little budget phone makes no case for itself other than it being a follow-on to a fairly popular budget phone. Actually, that is ZTE's case.
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Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ pre-orders are officially underway nationwide, and here are all the pricing and availability details from Best Buy and Sprint.
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If you like pen-wielding phablets, but don't want to spend a fortune on one, Sprint's LG Stylo 3 is now available from Boost and Virgin Mobile.
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Sprint took a breather in subscriber growth thanks in part to an accounting consolidation move, but prepaid continues to prove too "competitive".
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What T-Mobile was able to do in the United States postpaid market, Sprint thinks it’ll be able to pull off in the prepaid market. And to do so, it will bolster a failing property: Virgin Mobile.
A lot of the prepaid market has been thrown into flux as competition spreads thin and as the so-called “Un-carrier” is pulling down massive postpaid offerings to the lower end of the price spectrum. In fact, average user revenue figures for both US postpaid and prepaid accounts have come closer to each other in the past year or so.
Sprint has been able to pull Boost Mobile back into growth “for the first time in many, many quarters” through aggressive service value and relatively decent device portfolio with low price maintenance. The Now Network has also been cleaning up house as well and has seen a recovery in its user base.
So, how does the conglomerate’s second prepaid brand, Virgin Mobile, get turned around?
“You’re going to see us test different models. One model we’re testing that we like is a potential—rather than subsidizing handsets, actually providing free airtime with no subsidy on the handset,” said CEO Marcelo Claure at an investor conference. “So you’re going to see Virgin be our disruptor brand.”
Device subsidies can prove pretty substantial for the typical lower-income prepaid customer. Even selling a phone with MSRP of $179.99 at $50 off can make a big dent in the bills. Meanwhile, Virgin Mobile has also taken the lead of its sibling Boost in offering unlimited calling, texting and data with high-speed caps. What “free airtime” means could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back here.
Sprint lost 427,000 prepaid users in the third quarter. It planned on relaunching Virgin last year before slowing down plans and is now targeting that campaign for this year.
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In addition to an entirely new upper mid-range Galaxy A family, Samsung is widely expected to continue expanding the humbler J smartphone roster over the coming months, including stateside, where at least one major carrier will reportedly pick up the entry-level Galaxy J3 Emerge in just a few weeks.
Sprint has been both a postpaid and prepaid supporter of the J3 (2016) this year, and so it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the modest 5-incher’s sequel is headed to the Now Network, as well as daughter operators Boost and Virgin Mobile.
No words on pricing yet, but we can definitely hope for a sub-$200 tag on Sprint, and around $150 as far as its prepaid subsidiaries are concerned. A few bucks more, and not a lot of budget-minded mobile device consumers will be happy getting just a 5-inch 720p screen, octa-core Snapdragon 430 processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, 5MP main camera, 2MP selfie shooter, 2600mAh battery, and Marshmallow software goodies.
Granted, that’s a vastly improved spec sheet than the one attached to the 2016 edition. But that’s mostly because times are changing, low-end Android competition heating up, and industry veterans having to adapt to new standards imposed by ambitious rookies and rising Chinese stars. Design-wise, by the way, the Samsung Galaxy J3 Emerge doesn’t look great. So, yeah, let’s hear $200 tops on January 6.
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If you’re on Boost Mobile and need something to tide you over until the next big step up, ZTE has provided a new option with the $69.99 Tempo.Simply put, you get Android Marshmallow, a quad-core Snapdragon 210 and a 4.5-inch FWVGA LCD. The camera at the back is 5 megapixels while it’s 2 megapixels at front. There’s 1GB of RAM and 8GB of on-board storage with microSD expandability up to 32GB. The battery is rated at 2,200mAh. The phone supports HD Voice.While ...
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The LG Tribute that made its way around the prepaid carrier circuit now has a sequel, one with a 720p screen.Sprint’s prepaid units, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA, have the LG Tribute HD, an Android Marshmallow phone with a 5-inch display, a 2,100mAh battery and a Snapdragon 210 processor — well, it’s listed as such, though the quad-core unit is also told to run at 1.3GHz, something ...
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Boost Mobile is about to grab a handful of iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus boxes for a launch next Friday, but it also has a “power-full” phone from LG to deal with. Oddly enough, so does its parent company, Sprint.Both postpaid and prepaid operations will begin selling the LG X power, a phone with 4,100mAh battery, an octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 and Android Marshmallow. What could be a two-day phone ...
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Ahh, the world of prepaid smartphones. Cheap rates, but huge upfront costs with those phones. It’s why mid-ranger and budget phones flourish in this sector and they’ve been getting better and better by the month.But admit it: you do want a flagship, too. Right?Well, fear ...
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According to Strategy Analytics, China-based ZTE is currently the fourth largest smartphone supplier in the US and second largest in the no-contract market. That’s clearly thanks to the affordable high-end Axon line first and foremost, though ultra-low-cost prepaid ZMAX and Warp models must have also contributed greatly to the OEM’s rapid recent American rise.The ZTE Warp 7 is available online from Boost Mobile starting today at just $99.99, no lengthy ...
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Well, this is beyond confusing. The same exact phone, with the same exact humdrum design and outdated hardware specifications, available on four US carriers under three different names.First, Boost and Virgin Mobile, Sprint’s prepaid-specialized daughter operators, picked up the Alcatel Dawn a little over a month ago, charging just $70 with no-contract activations. In the meantime, the price dropped to $60, and now $30 on Cricket Wireless, where the entry-level 4.5-inch phone is branded Alcatel ...
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