*UPDATE* Major corrections on this post due to incorrect information from Boost Mobile. This is not a pay-one-day-but-not-the-next plan as I was led to believe. It’s an unlimited TEXT plan for about $30/month. If you call someone during the day, there is a $0.10 charge per minute. See corrections below.

If you aren’t a texting fiend, Boost Mobile has got a new messaging plan for you.

The Irvine mobile-phone company just announced its $1/day chat plan. BUTdon’t be fooled by the marketing campaign, which I have a problem with.

The plan is not really $1 per day. The $1 includes unlimited texting only at night, on weekends and between Boost and Sprint users and during the day.  Nights start at 9 p.m. and end at 7 a.m. If you text talk during the actual day, that’ll cost $0.10 per message minute.

Still, the offer is an interesting one, in these rough economic times. Budget-minded Boost users could schedule all their texting for nights and weekends. Or they could tell their friends to only text them on the nights of Monday, Wednesday and Friday so the weekly tab will be $3. (If only this were true…)

As with the Boost phone service, the texting plan is pay as you go. If users only text six days a month, they pay $6 a month. Unfortunately, I have also learned that users cannot buy one day here, one day there. Once you commit to this new offer, you get charged every day — whether you text or not. 

So we can dream on and hope that someday, someone will offer this: The nice benefit of a pure texting plan is that this can be paired with Boost’s pay-as-you-go plan, which is more or less free to join and costs $0.10 per minute.  Besides, a voice plan just really isn’t necessary anymore for heavy texters, right?

With this new promotion, Boost also unveiled a few new videos featuring a scruffy George Washington who is grateful for the $1 revival (get it?) Check them out HERE or click image below:

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