$50 a Month Boost Unlimited Calls

$50 a Month Boost Unlimited Calls, Text, Internet, etc.

OK, so I’ve had a Verizon phone for years and a Verizon Blackberry the last year plus….

I’ve also had a $175 a month cell phone bill. $99 a month unlimited calls, add Internet/text messages plus taxes and it comes to about $175 a month, every month.

I use anywhere up to about 6,000 minutes a month. So to be sure I didn’t get caught with my pants down on overages, I went for the unlimited plan when that came out a year ago or so. Kinda’ pissed me off that I was on a 6,000 minute plan for $149 a month previous and Verizon didn’t just put you into the $99 a month unlimited, I had to hear it in my truck radio driving home from Phoenix to Denver.

But never mind, it is what it is. It used to be over $225 a month, I was just glad it dropped to $175.

A couple weeks ago while reading a USA Today newspaper, I saw an article that said Boost would soon have a $50 a month unlimited calls, unlimited long distance, unlimited text, unlimited Internet, etc. I said yeah, right.

Well they do, and I did.

So now I took 3 steps forward by getting on Boost which the way I understand it they’re (told to me by a Boost rep) using the old Sprint Nationwide Network. I have no issues with that at all. It’s not like a Cricket phone that only works in your backyard.

There’s been a couple things that have suffered though. Mainly, and the only one that somewhat bothers me, is that their four available phones suck at Internet.

But for saving $125 a month, every month, it actually has freed me up to pay attention and drive instead of trying to answer a Blackberry e-mail. It’s forced me to not pull up CNN at the dinner table at a restaurant and best of all - it gives me a little more time in the day because I’m not trying to do all that shit while I’m busy with other stuff. It’s a classic case of a “good” downsizing. Bigger and faster isn’t always better.

It’s been 3 days on this new deal at Boost and I gotta’ say I’m extremely pleased with their coverage. I live up on a hill and I used to have to take all my Verizon calls out in the garage, the only place Verizon seemed to work. All that did is make for a whole lot of aggravation and a increase in my daily smoking habit (since I don’t smoke in the house).

Life is much simpler now. The Internet and emails are back on my computer, and my phone calls are back on my phone. I also have an extra $125 a month. Imagine that.

L2 Lumpy