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Originally Posted by Churner Originally Posted by Originally Posted by brachiopoid Originally Posted by I wonder how current customers will transition, or if you are just supposed to leave and shop around. Will your Virgin phone work on Boost? I still have 3 family members on VM, although I left this year. Could be some super good close out deals, but of course the VM phones will be worthless if there is no service for them. force subscribers to go away. Subscribers are the key component of a wireless company's valuation as a company, so the notion that they would be abandoned and told to fend for themselves in the marketplace is kind of absurd. That's why the customer base has been protected with grandfathering over the years, to help prevent mass defections.



Just wait and see what happens. The resulting changes may not be an improvement for everyone, but I am certain it won't be as bleak as the scenario you paint. The network that VM phones operate on isn't going away, so there's no need tosubscribers to go away. Subscribers are the key component of a wireless company's valuation as a company, so the notion that they would be abandoned and told to fend for themselves in the marketplace is kind of absurd. That's why the customer base has been protected with grandfathering over the years, to helpmass defections.Just wait and see what happens. The resulting changes may not be an improvement for everyone, but I am certain it won't be as bleak as the scenario you paint.

Aside from both being SPG brands, they each have their own distinct identities which prevented dealers from truly mastering both which resulted in one product being "sold" while the other was rarely featured by the dealers sales staff. Boost strength has always been its simple approach to a basic unlimited menu, while Virgin Mobile has a myriad of services for its subscribers to select from. One can see how easy it is for someone to fail to understand the value each brand represents to different consumers by reading through the various prepaid forums here at HF, and thus it is the same with a Boost Mobile store trying to sell VM products and services or vice-versa.If Sprint ever decides to merge a prepaid service, which does not seem to be the case at this moment in time, it would probably be folding VM onto the Sprint Prepaid brand, since it is the most compete brand featuring all prepaid service options and not just simple unlimited service.