Current Boost customers can switch to a Family Plan using the My Account section of the Boost website. Customers who switch to a Family Plan mid month will lose any remaining airtime. The Boost site lets users schedule to switch at the end of the current month to avoid losing paid for service.
New customers can choose a Family Plan when they activate their phone online, in store or by calling Boost.
The first user to sign up is the primary account holder and can invite friends and family members to join their plan. You need to know the other person's Boost phone number to invite them. Be careful who you invite as the primary account holder is responsible all recurring monthly payments for all members of the Family Plan. For current customers joining a Family Plan, Boost will apply a pro-rated credit for unused days of service to the primary Family Plan account.
Family plan members do not all need to be on the same plans. There are three plans available:
- $35/month - unlimited voice and messaging, 2 GB high speed data
- $45/month - unlimited voice and messaging, 5 GB high speed data
- $60/month - unlimited voice and messaging, unlimited high speed data
Unlike Boost's similarly priced single line plans, the Family Plans do not include the "Growing Data" feature which gives users 500 MB per month extra for every three online payments. They also don't include Boost's "Grace Period" perk which gives customers 60 days of free incoming calls and texts if when they don't have sufficient funds to renew their monthly plan.
Boost's Family plan is a good deal and but is it really competitive? Maybe not, Sprint is competing with T-Mobile's MetroPCS and AT&T's Cricket which offer similar family plans. Here's how three competitors least expensive five line plans stack up:
Source: Boost Mobile
In return for creating a Family Plan, Boost gives you a discount:
- 2 lines get $5/month off
- 3 lines get $15/month off
- 4 lines get $40/month off
- 5 lines get $75/month off
Boost's Family plan is a good deal and but is it really competitive? Maybe not, Sprint is competing with T-Mobile's MetroPCS and AT&T's Cricket which offer similar family plans. Here's how three competitors least expensive five line plans stack up:
- $95 - Boost 5 lines with unlimited voice and messaging, 2 GB high speed data
- $100 - Cricket 5 lines with unlimited voice and messaging, 2.5 GB high speed data
- $100 - MetroPCS 5 lines with unlimited voice and messaging, 1 GB high speed data
Source: Boost Mobile
Wow what a deal. Boost works great here in Miami.
ReplyDeleteI'm switching all my family to Boost now
Oh... No... Help him...
DeleteThanks again, and I really liked your second to the last sentence.
ReplyDeleteAt 2 lines and 3 lines its actually better not to get a family plan because of the auto-pay discount (on each line) and growing data. The family plan only allows one auto-pay discount and NO growing data. The family plan is $5 cheaper, but you lose growing data and grace period.
ReplyDeleteOnce again Boost offers a plan with less value.
exactly.
ReplyDeleteMisleading poster bullets, the tethering is an extra charge, right? Also music streaming is free on a small list of services. The last one is true.
ReplyDeleteTypo, Fanily
Hotspot is include in the new family plans but not on the old ones. Music streaming does not use your data if you used the following services Pandora, iHeart, Slacker, Milk Music and there another but dont recall the name.
Deleteit says right on the advertisement poster that free incoming calls and messages are free for sixty days
ReplyDeleteSo it does. But in the fine print at the bottom on the same page that image came from, it says "Growing Data and Grace Period not available on Family Plans". "Grace Period" is Boost's term for free incoming for non-payers. I think Boost's Marketing Department probably copy and pasted the "Free incoming.." part from Boost's single line plan pages.
Deletedoes anyone know if metro or cricket have unlimited throttled data after using the high speed data like boost?
ReplyDeleteYes, MetroPCS and Cricket have unlimited throttled data after the high-speed portion is used up.
Deletethats a lie metro does not throttle on unlimited i have used 29 gigs of data
DeleteThe OP was obviously asking about MetroPCS and Cricket's limited plans not the unlimited ones.
DeleteI've had boost for years and add funds to pay my account every month with a prepaid boost card from 7-11 and I never pay taxes or fees on top of the monthly fee so why would boost charge taxes on top of the family plan monthly fee? are you sure about this?
ReplyDeleteYou must be one of the lucky few that lives in a state that doesn't tax prepaid airtime.
Deletethanks for all your answers Dennis. I'm in NV so does that mean i can continue buying the prepaid boost cards from 7-11 and not pay taxes if i get this new family plan?
ReplyDeleteYes, it looks like there are currently no point of sale taxes on prepaid airtime in Nevada. You should have no taxes paying Boost directly including using autp pay.
DeleteBoost use to only charge for what your payment is.if you paid in a boost mobile store. .
ReplyDeleteFor example. .
35 dollar plan was just 35 dollars. Now they charge taxes and a fee for adding it onto your phone. So its like 4.95 plus taxes
Metro will charge $3 when you pay in their store and no discount for autopay.
ReplyDeleteBoost Mobile here in Moreno Valley, CA doesn't add tax if you pay in store. But they charge a $3 fee which ic okay with me. We have a family plan w/4 lines.
ReplyDeleteIn the family plan do u have to pay for phones or can u get a phone as long as u are in the plan
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