Boost Mobile Lends Helping Hand to Customers in Galveston with Free Calls

Sprint Prepaid Division to Provide Relief to Pay-As-You-Go and Unlimited by Boost Customers in the Hurricane Ravaged Region

Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S), today announced in a free text message to Galveston-area customers that the company will apply a $5 credit to all Pay-As-You-Go customers and a one-time monthly recurring payment credit to Unlimited by Boost customers in the region. Unlimited by Boost customers residing in the Galveston area are asked to call Boost Customer Care to obtain more information as to how they can receive their credit.

Customers from the Galveston and Bolivar Peninsula area on Boost Mobile’s Pay-As-You-Go service will receive the $5 credit, which will be automatically applied to their accounts and confirmation of the credit will be sent via free text message. Unlimited by Boost customers from the same area are asked to call 1-888-TLK-MORE to receive a credit if their payment due date falls between September 18-24, 2008.

“As scores of Boost customers from the Galveston area have been displaced by Hurricane Ike, we understand that many are still without power or do not have the proper access to replenish their accounts,” said Boost Mobile Vice President of Customer Management Kelly Owens St. Julian. “We want to help our customers get their lives back in order by offering a helping hand and assuring them that they will continue to receive vital communications services to aid in their return to normalcy.”

Prior to Hurricane Ike making landfall, Boost Mobile implemented a turn-key regional disaster relief policy of suspending traveling service charges of 15 cents per minute for all calls made by Unlimited by Boost customers outside their normal home calling area (HCA) during evacuations.

About Boost Mobile

Boost Mobile led a wireless industry revolution in 2002 when it became the first and only provider to offer push-to-talk as a prepaid service to the youth segment and mainstream consumer market. The company disrupted the wireless industry once again in 2007 when it was the first to offer an unlimited, flat-rate prepaid wireless service plan on a nationwide network. Today, Boost Mobile continues to lead the industry in offering quality mobile phones, and wireless services with no long-term contracts, credit checks or activation fees. A division of Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S), Boost is among the most popular prepaid wireless brands in the U.S. and has approximately four million customers – the majority of which are 18 to 34 years old. Boost-branded wireless phones with exclusive Boost® Walkie-Talkie service are available nationwide at approximately 17,500 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 and www.boostmobile.com.

Contacts

Boost Mobile Media Bureau, 949-748-3440
Press {at} BoostMobile(.)com