Poor Motorola prepaid phone sales a bad sign for Boost?

Boost Mobile‘s fourth quarter numbers until Sprint makes their announcement on February 10, last week we might have seen into the future. Motorola reported their own Q4 results, and while they showed progress in some areas, they were particularly lacking in prepaid. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha said that sales of phones to prepaid carriers were “particularly weak.” While a number of prepaid carriers offer Motorola phones, Boost Mobile sold Motorola phones exclusively until its recent CDMA expansion. Could this mean slow fourth quarter numbers for Boost? It might sound like it, but there’s no certainty. Even with this, I bet Boost finishes a bit ahead of where we saw MetroPCS and Cricket were — below last year, but too far.]]>