Boost Unlimited a viable option for out-of-state students

Boost Mobile Unlimited plan. It’s one of the best values in the country when you factor in the three majors unlimited services (voice, messaging, Web), nationwide network, and finality of the $50 monthly fee. What I haven’t hit is the student angle. Thankfully, TMCNet contributor Rajani Baburajan notes the advantage it offers students, particularly those who attend school outside their home state. The first advantage is the budgeting issue. As in, there is none. It’s $50 per month, and that’s it. Unless there are nearby roaming areas, students can expect the same bill every month. While there’s certainly real-life educational value in a traditional pay as you go cell phone options — users must learn to budget money and minutes — the worry-free nature of Boost should be welcome to students, especially new students saddled with large workloads. The other advantage is the nationwide network. There’s a greater chance that students’ parents’ homes and their school fall into Boost’s Nextel network than it does for either Cricket or MetroPCS. With availability in both locations, students can use their phone wherever without worrying about incurring large roaming charges. Again, this helps create a worry-free environment. Not that most college kids have many real worries… Plus, as Baburajan notes, when you consider taxes and fees, Boost’s plan works out even cheaper than the alternatives from Cricket and Metro:

Also, they can save up to $42 per year in comparison with Cricket’s $45 per month unlimited regional talk, text and Web offering and up to $144 per year when compared to MetroPCS’s $45 per month unlimited nationwide talk, text and Web offering.

Just to add one more point, if there comes a situation where students or their parents can no longer afford the $50 monthly fee, there is always the option to drop down to Boost’s $1/Day Chat plan or their traditional pay-as-you-go option, which charges 10 cents per minute. So there’s a level of risk-hedging at play here as well. Any students or parents out there already using Boost Unlimited? Any thinking about it?]]>