03.24.09
Starter Kits Add New Life to Old Cell Phones at an Affordable Price
Recycling Program Supports Global Inheritance Organization
IRVINE, Calif. – Each year, an estimated 130 million cell phones are retired – averaging more than 350,000 each day*. To celebrate National Cleaning Week, March 22 – 28, Boost Mobile encourages consumers to get into the 'spring cleaning' spirit, stop ignoring that old phone and either reuse it, give it away or recycle.
Reuse or Re-gift a Boost Mobile or Nextel Handset with a Boost Mobile Starter Kit
An alternative to recycling is to give new life to a previously used Boost Mobile or Nextel phone with a Boost Mobile Starter Kit. After purchasing the $19.99 Starter Kit, users simply insert the SIM Card into any Boost Mobile or Nextel cell phone and instantly receive $10 in call credits. The Starter Kit is available for customers that want to get started on Boost Mobile's prepaid plans that allow customers to pay by the month, day or minute.
"Purchasing a Starter Kit is a quick and affordable way for consumers to get started on Boost's popular new Monthly Unlimited plan," said Jeff Auman, vice president of sales at Boost Mobile. "Even though our phones start as low as $30, using a new SIM card in an older, dormant phone is convenient and environmentally friendly by not filling up our landfills with toxic e-waste."
'E-waste,' or electronics trash, is piling up faster than ever, accounting for 70 percent of the overall toxic waste currently found in landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
For more information about the Boost Mobile Starter Kit, please visit http://www.boostmobile.com/starterkit
Boost Mobile's Phone Recycling Program Supports Global Inheritance
Boost Mobile's cell phone recycling program supports Global Inheritance, a 501c3 non-profit organization working to reinvent activism for today's young generation. Proceeds from the recycling effort benefit POSTed, a Web site by Global Inheritance that provides schools with free artistically designed posters promoting everything from recycling and exercise to voting and energy conservation.
POSTed provides an entry point for students to get into the habit of thinking about the environment, social causes and world issues through the creativity of art. For more information, visit www.globalinheritance.org.
Customers can participate in Boost Mobile's phone recycling program, hassle free, using the prepaid envelope available online for download at www.boostmobile.com
About Boost Mobile
The prepaid division of Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S), Boost Mobile offers quality mobile phones, and flexible pay by the month, day and minute wireless services with no hidden fees, no contracts or credit checks. Boost-branded wireless phones with its exclusive Boost® Walkie-Talkie service are available nationwide at approximately 16,000 major retail and independent wireless dealer locations; with Re-Boost® available at approximately 100,000 locations throughout the U.S. Purchase and experience Boost on the web at MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and www.boostmobile.com.
Media Contacts:
Boost Mobile Media Bureau
Office: 949.748.3440
Email: Press@BoostMobile.com