Comments on: No Contract Unlimited Calling from Sprint-Nextel?

By: mike taylor

mike taylor — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:40:47 +0000

It is a big deal IF it is Sprint. (It was (is?) offered here in the SF area as a test last spring.
Didn’t seem to be heavily promoted. $129/mo. as i recall.
Nextel has had unlimted, i believe, for some time. Their poor quality isn’t good enuf for most heavy business users.

By: MKinMotion

MKinMotion — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:04:10 +0000

If Sprint launches this under their brand rather than a separate brand, I think it’s pretty significant. The future of wireless voice is not counting minutes or being tied down by a contract…especially if the iPhone is any indication that consumers are willing to pay full price for a phone.

By: whoopdidoo

whoopdidoo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:19:47 +0000

To add to the above – LEAP and Metro do offer roaming, albeit for a premium above the price of the unlimited airtime. Boost Unlimited and the LEAP offerings are probably extremely similar in feature set. Nothing that new here.

By: John Kullman

John Kullman — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:18:26 +0000

MobileCrunch isn’t claiming that it is breaking a new story here, it is only reporting that Sprint has plans to expand its experiment into contract free unlimited calling. A major carrier that may offer this nationally has big implications for the mobile phone industry. You do see how this could change things, don’t you Nevermind? MobileCruch isn’t the AP. We offer analysis with many of our stories. Nevermind, keep reading MobileCrunch to get intelligant opinion and analysis that you won’t get anywhere else.

By: nevermind

nevermind — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:38:11 +0000

He’s talking about Boost Mobile, the wholly owned prepaid subsidiary, which has been trialling unlimited plans in several markets since early this year.. and gary has talked about it in every investor call this year…. sorry to say mobilecrunch, but you are not really ‘breaking’ a story about a ‘new venture’ here.