so you mean to tell me that the nextel sales rep. that i was chatting with online lied to me. she said nextel and boost are not affliates, do you think nextel is trying their best to hide this from the boost consumers, if nextel owns boost. how come you can't get boost on nextel(sim) or nextel on boost(sim)?. the boost phone i had already had came with a boost sim, the dealer hooked me up with it, he took the boost sim out and put the nextel sim, that was better then paying at least 200 dollars for a nextel phone. i accepted a nextel phone for free, anything but the guy gave me turned out to be a better deal, anyway i do like the boost symbol on the i730 phone, i was expecting to get a nextel phone, anyway i like the boost phones to, but i prefered nextel because i did not know that you coud get boost phones on nextel. nextel owning boost will explain why boost and nextel have the same model and names for the phones(not to forget also the speaker phone feature).