Sprint Talks Of Plans To Curtail Boost

Because of the realized disadvantage of Boost‘s growth – thereby outpacing Sprint – Sprint has announced that the carrier would have to take steps to halt the growth of its MVNO Boost, which primarily targets the youth market.

COO Len Lauer explained that this spurt in Boost’s growth will essentially put a strain on Sprint’s iDEN network. As it is, the network is already under pressure because Sprint had to give up a portion of its iDEN spectrum to the FCC in order to create clear public safety bands. And with the continuing growth of Boost’s users, it is further straining the already near-exhausted network. In truth, the carrier actually prefer that Nextel subscribers be served with the limited capacity that they have.

While no definite plans as to how exactly they intend to stunt Boost’s growth, Sprint has announced  the plan to launch dual mode handsets that use CDMA for voice and data calls, and only relies on iDEN for Push To Talk, to thin out Nextel‘s crowded 800 MHz spectrum.

Via phonescoop

Because of the realized disadvantage of Boost‘s growth – thereby outpacing Sprint – Sprint has announced that the carrier would have to take steps to halt the growth of its MVNO Boost, which primarily targets the youth market.

COO Len Lauer explained that this spurt in Boost’s growth will essentially put a strain on Sprint’s iDEN network. As it is, the network is already under pressure because Sprint had to give up a portion of its iDEN spectrum to the FCC in order to create clear public safety bands. And with the continuing growth of Boost’s users, it is further straining the already near-exhausted network. In truth, the carrier actually prefer that Nextel subscribers be served with the limited capacity that they have.

While no definite plans as to how exactly they intend to stunt Boost’s growth, Sprint has announced  the plan to launch dual mode handsets that use CDMA for voice and data calls, and only relies on iDEN for Push To Talk, to thin out Nextel‘s crowded 800 MHz spectrum.

Via phonescoop