Boost Mobile Goes to School by Offering Re-Boost at Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Nationwide

Uh oh, you’re giving a presentation in Psych 101 in 15 minutes and need to find out where your presentation partner is, but you need to add money to your Boost Mobile no-contract account – what should you do? Make a quick stop in your campus bookstore of course. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers is now selling Boost Mobile Re-Boost^® Cards in many of its college bookstores on campuses across the U.S.

"It’s a very exciting partnership,” notes Kelly Owens St. Julian, chief service officer, Boost Mobile. "Boost Mobile is becoming increasingly attractive to college students seeking simple, affordable and reliable cell phone service with no contract, and offering Re-Boost at Barnes & Noble enables them to add money to their accounts without leaving campus.”

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers serves over four million students and more than 500 of the nearly 700 stores they operate will carry the Re-Boost Cards.

"We’re more than happy to be working with Boost Mobile,” notes Marie Policastro, manager of partnership marketing at Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. "It’s an opportunity for us to offer students a product they want in a convenient location – something we are always looking to do.”

About Boost Mobile

Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S) that offers wireless phones and services with no contracts, credit checks or activation fees, and was named 2009 North American Prepaid Mobile Service of the Year by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan, redefines value for wireless consumers with its ‘Monthly Unlimited’ service, offering unlimited anytime calling, text messaging, wireless web and exclusive Boost^® Walkie-Talkie service with a national calling area for $50 a month.

Boost Mobile ‘Monthly Unlimited’ offers flat-rate, nationwide service in 17,500 cities throughout the United States on the Nextel National Network – all with no additional telecom taxes, activation, roaming, traveling or long distance fees. Boost Mobile offers a selection of quality handsets from Motorola, ranging from entry-level to high end, as well as worry-free calling plans that enable customers to pay by the minute, day or month.

Boost-branded wireless phones are available nationwide at nearly 20,000 major retail stores including Best Buy, Radio Shack, Target, Wal-Mart; Sprint retail stores and independent wireless dealer locations; with Re-Boost^® available at approximately 100,000 locations throughout the U.S. Purchase and experience Boost Mobile on the Web at MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and www.boostmobile.com.

About Barnes & Noble College Booksellers

Based out of Basking Ridge, N.J., Barnes & Noble College Booksellers is a privately-held sister company to Barnes & Noble Inc., the nation’s largest bookseller. Currently, they operate almost 700 college bookstores across America.