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iDEN

Monthly Unlimited: $50 a month includes nationwide unlimited talk, text (including multi-media messaging), wireless Web, Walkie-Talkie. Also includes voicemail, long distance and nationwide network. This is a flat-rate offer with no taxes, roaming charges or other fees.
International Connect add-on: An additional $10 a month add-on to the Monthly Unlimited plan, International Connect includes unlimited text messaging and walkie-talkie services between the U.S., Canada, Baja California, and select areas of South America. Customers in the U.S. or Baja California can send and receive unlimited texts globally.

Daily Chat and Text Plan: $1 daily subscription, unlimited text, nights and weekends and mobile-to-mobile. Daytime rates are 10¢ per minute. Unlimited nationwide Boost® Walkie-Talkie is available for an additional $1 a day.

Paygo Basic: 10¢ per minute, anytime - day or night, customers can also send and receive standard text messages for 10¢ per message. Unlimited Nationwide Boost® Walkie-Talkie is available for an additional $1 a day.

CDMA

Unlimited By Boost (UNLTD) – a trial service that is regionally available in 13 states operating on Sprint’s CDMA network. This plan includes nationwide talk, text and Web for $50 per month. Unlike Monthly Unlimited, UNLTD customers pay telecom taxes in addition to their Monthly Recurring Plan Amount and a convenience fee is charged to customers when replenishing in person.

Driven by the success of Boost Mobile’s unlimited $50 prepaid plan, Sprint is now offering its CDMA prepaid customers the same deal in an effort to reconcile prepaid plans across its two networks. Boost CDMA customer are small in number compared to iDEN customers, and Sprint said it would continue to focus Boost services on the iDEN network, but Sprint may also be walking a dangerous line. Sprint is now offering two plans that both essentially offer unlimited voice, SMS and data, UNLTD by Boost at $50 a month Sprint’s Simply Everything plan, priced at $100 a month.

There are several key differences between the Sprint and Boost plans: The $100 plan gives access to host of data services from GPS navigation and BlackBerry Internet Services to entertainment apps like mobile TV, music streaming and premiums sports apps. None of those services apply to Boost. Simply Everything can be applied to several of Sprint’s most advanced smartphones, which can take huge advantage of their data plans, while UNLTD’s device portfolio is limited to a feature phones like Motorola’s KRZR, meaning the data experience will be limited to mobile Web browsing and Java apps that access the Internet. They both, however, share a fast EV-DO connection, something Boost’s typical iDEN phones can’t boast. The biggest difference between Boost and Sprint plans, however, has always been the roaming–Boost customers unlimited calls were actually limited to their home markets, while Sprint customers faced no such restrictions. Today, Boost lifted those restrictions turning both plans into nationwide calling services.

Sprint also only offers the UNLTD plan in 13 states where it can leverage its CDMA networks the most, far limiting the size of its customer base. It’s unlikely that a hardcore user signed up for the Simply Everything plan is going to switch to its Boost equivalent, but it might make some Simply Everything customers ask some questions. If you receive in both plans unlimited voice minutes, text and web browsing, along with no roaming and long distance, then the primary differentiators between the Sprint and Boost will be advanced data services and phone selection. Those two factors are obviously worth a premium, but are they worth $50 more a month?