Straight away, being a Sprint network service the signal would be absolute garbage in most regions. (See Verizon and AT&T's cartel distributions of territory for the backstory on how this came to be.)
Boost's walkie-talkie push-to-talk crap was the single most irritating piece of technology of the late 1990s and early 2000s. I'd prayed to god that he'd struck down anyone carrying a device with that blasted feature enabled.
But even with all that aside, their bottom-of-the-barrel Marketing is sufficient to make any reasonable customer embarrassed to be within 25 feet of a Boost phone. (From Wiki -)
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The brand was originally marketed to the teen and young adult demographics, heavily focused on action sports, lifestyle and urban music.
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Well, then, sign me up good sir!
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Their campaigns featured Fat Joe, Master Shake, Eve, Travis Barker, Kanye West, Travis Pastrana, Ludacris, Richard "Rip" Hamilton, Nick Cannon, Young Jeezy, Jermaine Dupri, and Mickey Avalon, and The Game and used the slang slogan "Where you at?"
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You know, the Intelligencia. Wait a sec... is there seriously someone named,
"The Game" ? Is he a toddler?
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Boost have also used Indy Car driver Danica Patrick in a commercial.
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Now you've got my attention. I can think of no finer way to spend an afternoon than watching vehicles driving in circles at dangerous speeds.
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Super Bowl XLIV featured a music video of "The Boost Mobile Shuffle" directed by comedy duo Tim & Eric.
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Are Super Bowls really still a
thing?
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Boost Mobile regularly sponsors sports teams and sporting events including RockCorps, WNBA, ASP World Tour, and the show Hot Import Nights.
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You said a bunch of words. I don't know what they are.
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Athletes sponsored by Boost include Kelly Slater, Makua Rothman, Jamie O'Brien, Dane Reynolds, Kolohe Andino, Sunny Garcia, Paul "P-Rod" Rodriguez, Josh Hansen, Keir Dillon, Danny Kass, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Danica Patrick and Travis Pastrana
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Well if a multi-million dollar ball dribbler can get paid to push their crap, you know if must be good.
"Where you AT?!"