Dear HT, In my quest for cheaper, unlimited service, I have the below information to share and invite feedback. Well I learned some more about Boost Mobile and the new player in the area, Prospect.com (seen the billboards?) By the way, Virgin Mobile is also owned by Sprint. Boost has 2 plans, one is on Sprint one is on Nextel. The $50/month unlimited data, voice & text plan uses Nextel which uses iDEN not CDMA. The mobile guy at the Hadley Target is pretty informed and he said iDEN is an outdated standard which will be eliminated in a year or so and he guesses subscribers will be upgraded to CDMA. iDEN can do voice okay but not data, no where near 3G speeds, maybe not even 2G. Prospect mobile is a start up out of Texas. They have a $35/month unlimited voice plan that uses CDMA in Texas but AWS in Hartford/Springfield. Wikipedia says okay things about AWS: *Advanced Wireless Services*, also known as *AWS-1*, is a wireless telecommunications <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications>spectrum band used for mobile voice and data services, video, and messaging. AWS-1 is used in the United States<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>and replaces the spectrum formerly allocated to Multipoint Multichannel Distribution Service <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDS>, sometimes referred to as Wireless Cable <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDS>. The service is administered by the Federal Communications Commission<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission> . The AWS band uses microwave <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave> frequencies <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum> in two segments: from 1710 to 1755 MHz, and from 2110 to 2155 MHz. The service is intended to be used by mobile devices such as wireless phones for mobile data, video, and messaging services. Bidding for this new spectrum by the FCC started on August 9, 2006 and the majority of the frequency blocks were sold to T-Mobile USA<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_USA>to deploy their 3G wireless network in the United States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>. This move effectively kills the former MMDS and Wireless Cable service in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Wireless_Services Best, Andrew -- Andrew Bellak CEO Registered Investment Advisor andrew at StakeholdersCapital.com www.StakeHoldersCapital.com (o) 888-STK-HLDR (785-4537) x.2 (f) 888-735-HLDR (m) 646-552-5783 -common good investing, uncommonly smart -risk management with options This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. 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