Is boost mobile good or bad?

Pros:

1. no phone contracts / or credit check
2. Walkie $ 50 per month / unlimited text, web, talkie, and minutes across the country
3. No hidden charges ($ 50 is $ 50) is not roaming
4. Text messaging seems to work instantly!
5. Walkie talkie works great!

Cons:

1. Posts pic says you send them, but people do not go through
2. Web friendly phones are sent
3. The phones are all old school ... as in the past 7 years.
4. phone signal is decent, but it varies ... deff not Verizon, Sprint, etc.
5. web is not good

Summary: If you are looking for a decent phone service without credit check, and hate the hidden fees and only care about voice and text, and increase walkie talkie is for you.... If getting on the net ... then another in which ... (unless you hack a smartphone and notput it in drive get on the internet!) to promote decent service.

Boost Mobile is a MVNO owned by Sprint Nextel. Serves 4 million customers in 49 states. Although originally marketed its services to a young, urban, Boost is now aimed at all consumers on a budget and serves as a resource for prepaid customers of SprintNextel. As such, it requires no contracts or credit checks. The primary monthly plan offers unlimited calling, messaging and web browsing, but customers can also pay per minute or per day. The airline offers CDMA and iDEN phones, the latter of which have push-to-talk. Originally released in New Zealand and Australia in 2001, Increase in U.S. launched in 2003.