Boost Mobile phasing out CDMA products

Forgive me for this but in the Los Angeles Area, Boost Iden phones need improvement! It takes an average of 5 mins to receive a text i have the boost i776 phone! I waited 22 mins once for a text message! How do you like that? I have the booth the CDMA BOOST & IDEN BOOST.. and cdma’s service is better! always have bars! Up and down california.. I have bars with the CDMA phone! I’m a little dissapointed with the boost iden phones! I call boost mobile customer service and they are in no way shape of form trained to take any time of tech or trouble shooting calls. They try to get you off the phone, and lie that a tower is down. So far i’m not impressed with IDEN phones from Boost! CDMA SHOULD HAVE CHIRP! or if boost would have an unlimited plan for it’s cdma customers.. Promote both! why phase out the reliable service!

test: it's 8:35 pacific standard time! I am sending a text from my cdma phone to a t mobile phone and to the iden boost.. waiting ... waiting... the t mobile got there in seconds! Iden nothing!!! replied back from the t mobile phone to the boost cdma phone.. waiting ...waiting.. got the text! in seconds!!!
Boost iden phone.. Nothing yet! weak service!

i'm not anoymous.. hit me up at crazyjoe818sfv@yahoo.com and i will tell you the truth! boost iden sucks!

Anonymous is posting the same message about texts everywhere. We get it dude, you don't like BM. Just go with another company.

I work at RadioShack and I have to sell these phones. I wont deny it either---iDEN sucks. Boost was better off with CDMA.

We've had numerous phones returned to us, several of them being the delayed text issue. They try and blame it on Motorola, which in my 3 times of calling for tech support has done nothing.

It's iDEN with Nextel. What a catastrophe. What a let down.

The delay in text messages is a known issue with the iDEN network. The problem occurred because when Boost launched their $50 unlimited plan. The actual increase in text message usage exceeded the projected increase in the number of text messages that were expected. There was an overwhelming response to the $50 unlimited plan and the messaging servers were having trouble keeping up. There are improvements being made every week to address this issue, it seems to be stabalizing. If you just hang in a little bit longer I think you'll start to see the difference.

I am an Unlimited by Boost Technical Support Agent and I MUCH prefer the cdma network to the iDen that the walkie talkie phones use. Your post appears dead on to me. Too bad our Unlimited by Boost customers are having a rough time finding new phones, because the iDen customers who left will definitely wish to return.

I GOT AN I776 MOTOROLA,all it did was drop calls. so i started researching on the web,and read where some people had trouble with dropped calls. other people had no problem. solution: kept taking the phone back till i got one that worked. seems that there are good units and bad units.you just have to keep trying until you get a good one.
the first month i spent hours on the phone to tech service,along with the dropped calls while talking to them. after my third try,i got one that works perfectly. i havent been on the tech support line since i got it...not once.
just a little fyi

Posted by Anonymous | June 29, 2009 - 2:32am
you forgot to say what phone you finally got that works also has any one used iether boost service in the northern ca area? why are they dropping cdma boost if its better?

They were saying they took back the phone to exchange for a less faulty one, getting the same type of phone back... Good job, Anon.

Apart from that... I've been considering using BoostMobile myself. After hearing about the horrible iden reviews, how do I get CDMA? Just buy one of the three phones that support CDMA?

BOOST mobile must have fixed the texting issue and some other call quality issues. I've been with them for a week now, on the UNLIMITED plan and I have had NO problems what so ever. Actually the call quality has been excellent. I've got absolutely no complaints so far. I just finished a two year contract with T-Mobile where I was paying over a 100 dollars a month for the exact same thing with BOOST. The thing I like the most is NO contract.

Does anyone know if I can use the sim card from a Boost phone and put it in my new SciPhone, which is a SmartPhone clone ? I am NOT a techy and don't understand all that prl imei stuff. Just want to know if I buy a boost sim will it work in my clone?