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  1. I've been using #BoostMobile for years. Their AI told me my service would work when I went to Canada. It did not. Time find a different service.

  2. All this talk of a #LinuxPhone is wonderful. But it's going to be a long time before I can buy a phone from #TMobile or #BoostMobile that has #Phosh or #KDEMobile on it, and only takes a few steps to setup. So it would be nice to go to a phone store and get a #NothingPhone or a #JollaPhone like that. But it's not happening any time soon.

  3. All this talk of a #LinuxPhone is wonderful. But it's going to be a long time before I can buy a phone from #TMobile or #BoostMobile that has #Phosh or #KDEMobile on it, and only takes a few steps to setup. So it would be nice to go to a phone store and get a #NothingPhone or a #JollaPhone like that. But it's not happening any time soon.

  4. Weekly output: AT&T 5G, Meta breakup bid blocked, Mozilla Foundation, social-media usage, Starship and New Glenn

    I spent much of the only week in November not disrupted by my own travel schedule catching up on things from the previous two weeks. As you can see from the list below, that was an incomplete exercise.

    (Speaking of previous weeks, I also wrote a post for Patreon supporters recapping my experience at Web Summit in Lisbon.)

    11/17/2025: AT&T Boosts 5G Speed and Capacity With EchoStar Spectrum, PCMag

    Having written in September about Boost Mobile’s plans to sell this spectrum to AT&T, I felt obliged to cover AT&T putting those frequencies into service sooner than I would have imagined possible.

    11/19/2025: Court Rejects FTC’s Bid to Break Up Meta, Finds It’s Not a Social Media Monopoly, PCMag

    I didn’t span on spending a large chunk of Tuesday afternoon reading a judge’s opinion about the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to order Meta to undo its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. I also didn’t expect to find the judge’s analysis of Facebook so relatable.

    11/20/2025: With Its Next Big Thing, Mozilla Wants to Do More Than Improve the Web, PCMag

    The interview at the center of this post happened two weeks earlier, so I appreciated the Mozilla Foundation providing some details about early proposals received since then for its AI-for-democracy funding program.

    11/20/2025: Among Social Media Users, Reddit Soars As X Stagnates, PCMag

    Thursday had no work items on my calendar, so I could cover this new report from the Pew Research Center about which social platforms have earned time on the schedules of Americans.

    11/21/2025: SpaceX’s Starship Suffers Major Test Mishap a Day After Blue Origin Unveils Rocket Upgrade Plans, PCMag

    I was going to spent Friday writing a post about an information-security conference I attended Tuesday, but then SpaceX had the booster stage of its Starship rocket fail catastrophically in a ground test a day after that company’s increasingly-capable rival Blue Origin outlined some ambitious upgrades to its own New Glenn launch vehicle.

    #att5g #blueOrigin #blueskyUsage #boostMobile #facebookInstagram #ftcVMeta #metaBreakup #mozillaFoundation #newGlenn #pewResearchCenter #socialMedia #spacexStarship #starship

  5. Weekly output: AT&T 5G, Meta breakup bid blocked, Mozilla Foundation, social-media usage, Starship and New Glenn

    I spent much of the only week in November not disrupted by my own travel schedule catching up on things from the previous two weeks. As you can see from the list below, that was an incomplete exercise.

    (Speaking of previous weeks, I also wrote a post for Patreon supporters recapping my experience at Web Summit in Lisbon.)

    11/17/2025: AT&T Boosts 5G Speed and Capacity With EchoStar Spectrum, PCMag

    Having written in September about Boost Mobile’s plans to sell this spectrum to AT&T, I felt obliged to cover AT&T putting those frequencies into service sooner than I would have imagined possible.

    11/19/2025: Court Rejects FTC’s Bid to Break Up Meta, Finds It’s Not a Social Media Monopoly, PCMag

    I didn’t span on spending a large chunk of Tuesday afternoon reading a judge’s opinion about the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to order Meta to undo its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. I also didn’t expect to find the judge’s analysis of Facebook so relatable.

    11/20/2025: With Its Next Big Thing, Mozilla Wants to Do More Than Improve the Web, PCMag

    The interview at the center of this post happened two weeks earlier, so I appreciated the Mozilla Foundation providing some details about early proposals received since then for its AI-for-democracy funding program.

    11/20/2025: Among Social Media Users, Reddit Soars As X Stagnates, PCMag

    Thursday had no work items on my calendar, so I could cover this new report from the Pew Research Center about which social platforms have earned time on the schedules of Americans.

    11/21/2025: SpaceX’s Starship Suffers Major Test Mishap a Day After Blue Origin Unveils Rocket Upgrade Plans, PCMag

    I was going to spent Friday writing a post about an information-security conference I attended Tuesday, but then SpaceX had the booster stage of its Starship rocket fail catastrophically in a ground test a day after that company’s increasingly-capable rival Blue Origin outlined some ambitious upgrades to its own New Glenn launch vehicle.

    #att5g #blueOrigin #blueskyUsage #boostMobile #facebookInstagram #ftcVMeta #metaBreakup #mozillaFoundation #newGlenn #pewResearchCenter #socialMedia #spacexStarship #starship

  6. Weekly output: Google Translate, Boost Mobile, Starship test flight, T-Mobile’s SuperMobile, FTC eyes Gmail spam filtering

    I’m off to Berlin Monday night to cover the IFA tech trade show–but this time, I’m paying my own way. I think I’ve structured my travel expenses and freelance pitches to assure that I make a profit from the coming week.

    In addition to what you see below, I wrote a bonus post for Patreon readers Sunday sharing travel tips from my first ride on Amtrak’s NextGen Acela train.

    8/26/2025: Google Translate Enlists AI for Live Translation and Language Lessons, PCMag

    I may get a chance to try out this feature in the field while I’m in Germany–except that so many locals speak English there.

    8/26/2025: Boost Mobile Sells Off Spectrum to AT&T, Ends Its Fourth-Carrier Ambitions, PCMag

    This was not on my list of possible stories at the start of the week, but the early coverage of this wireless-industry plot twist made it clear that I had to write up this news.

    8/27/2025: On Tenth Test Flight, SpaceX’s Starship Hits Its Marks, PCMag

    After two days of having the launch waved off, Tuesday saw the elements line up for SpaceX’s newest test flight of its giant Starship rocket.

    8/28/2025: T-Mobile Unwraps ‘SuperMobile,’ a Network-Sliced Business Plan, PCMag

    If T-Mobile had announced its new rate plans for business customers on the day it revealed this new option for business customers, this would have been a shorter post.

    8/30/2025: FTC Chairman Suggests Gmail Spam Filtering Has It In for GOP Candidates, PCMag

    I have to admit to missing this when FTC chair Andrew Ferguson posted this letter Thursday, but after seeing nobody else at PCMag jump on this idea by Friday, I decided to pick it up myself.

    #5G #Berlin #BoostMobile #electronics #FTC #Germany #GmailSpamFilters #GoogleTranslate #IFA #SuperMobile #TMobile #tradeShow

  7. Weekly output: Google Translate, Boost Mobile, Starship test flight, T-Mobile’s SuperMobile, FTC eyes Gmail spam filtering

    I’m off to Berlin Monday night to cover the IFA tech trade show–but this time, I’m paying my own way. I think I’ve structured my travel expenses and freelance pitches to assure that I make a profit from the coming week.

    In addition to what you see below, I wrote a bonus post for Patreon readers Sunday sharing travel tips from my first ride on Amtrak’s NextGen Acela train.

    8/26/2025: Google Translate Enlists AI for Live Translation and Language Lessons, PCMag

    I may get a chance to try out this feature in the field while I’m in Germany–except that so many locals speak English there.

    8/26/2025: Boost Mobile Sells Off Spectrum to AT&T, Ends Its Fourth-Carrier Ambitions, PCMag

    This was not on my list of possible stories at the start of the week, but the early coverage of this wireless-industry plot twist made it clear that I had to write up this news.

    8/27/2025: On Tenth Test Flight, SpaceX’s Starship Hits Its Marks, PCMag

    After two days of having the launch waved off, Tuesday saw the elements line up for SpaceX’s newest test flight of its giant Starship rocket.

    8/28/2025: T-Mobile Unwraps ‘SuperMobile,’ a Network-Sliced Business Plan, PCMag

    If T-Mobile had announced its new rate plans for business customers on the day it revealed this new option for business customers, this would have been a shorter post.

    8/30/2025: FTC Chairman Suggests Gmail Spam Filtering Has It In for GOP Candidates, PCMag

    I have to admit to missing this when FTC chair Andrew Ferguson posted this letter Thursday, but after seeing nobody else at PCMag jump on this idea by Friday, I decided to pick it up myself.

    #5G #Berlin #BoostMobile #electronics #FTC #Germany #GmailSpamFilters #GoogleTranslate #IFA #SuperMobile #TMobile #tradeShow

  8. The #Trump administration’s plan to create a fourth #wirelesscarrier through #Dish Network’s acquisition of #BoostMobile and spectrum from T-Mobile was doomed to fail. The T-Mobile-Sprint merger, approved in 2020, led to job losses, reduced competition, and higher prices, negating the benefits of the Dish plan. theverge.com/tech/766795/dish- #tech #media #news

  9. The #Trump administration’s plan to create a fourth #wirelesscarrier through #Dish Network’s acquisition of #BoostMobile and spectrum from T-Mobile was doomed to fail. The T-Mobile-Sprint merger, approved in 2020, led to job losses, reduced competition, and higher prices, negating the benefits of the Dish plan. theverge.com/tech/766795/dish- #tech #media #news

  10. Quick video time, as I ponder on what Telstra buying Boost Mobile will mean for its customers, as well as the wider Australian telco scene.

    #Telstra #BoostMobile #Australia #MVNO

    youtube.com/watch?v=QYE3sjxw1K

  11. Quick video time, as I ponder on what Telstra buying Boost Mobile will mean for its customers, as well as the wider Australian telco scene.

    #Telstra #BoostMobile #Australia #MVNO

    youtube.com/watch?v=QYE3sjxw1K

  12. Weekly output: Boost Mobile, AI at BT, digital privacy, Elon Musk’s X agenda, Salt Typhoon breaches T-Mobile

    I have more than enough practice at traveling to the other side of the Atlantic, but this week’s trip to Lisbon for Web Summit had me sandbagged by jet lag almost every night. It appears that I never got my head into Western European Time, to judge from my not feeling wiped out in a “do not operate heavy machinery” way after I got home Friday night.

    11/11/2024: Boost Mobile Touts 5G Network Progress, Adds Sub-$100 5G Phone to Lineup, PCMag

    The advance copies of Boost’s PR materials were vague about some key points, but the carrier’s press rep did get back to me to clarify that the $10 billion network-buildout expense shared in them was a total estimate, not a forecast of costs to come.

    11/12/2024: Will Gen AI generate value for the corporate landscape?, Web Summit

    My first panel at this conference had me interviewing Alex Bell, BT’s digital director of service, and Michael Park, a senior vice president and global head of AI go-to-market at ServiceNow, about how the former company had enlisted the latter to put AI to work in some important IT and customer-service systems.

    11/12/2024: Secure swipe: protecting customer data, Web Summit

    My second and final panel–fewer than I usually field at this conference–put me on stage with Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower turned Own Your Data advocate, and Marcus Räder, founder and CEO of the lodging-services firm Hostaway, to discuss how companies collect and keep data and how they would be better off not hoarding so much customer information.

    11/14/2024: ‘Things Are Different for Elon’: Who Needs X When You Have Political Power?, PCMag

    I only wrote up one Web Summit panel for PCMag, but it was a very good one: New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac talking about Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. They went beyond their recount of that in their book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter to discuss our new oligarch-in-chief’s privileged perch in Donald Trump’s circles.

    11/16/2024: Chinese State-Sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Also Breached T-Mobile, PCMag

    I usually try to avoid writing posts on the weekend, but a) this was news that had gone uncovered at my client and b) I had written less than usual over the rest of the week and c) I have bills coming that aren’t going to pay themselves.

    #AI #BoostMobile #BrittanyKaiser #BT #ChineseHackers #ElonMuskTwitter #KateConger #Lisbon #oligarch #RyanMac #SaltTyphoon #TMobile #WebSummit

  13. Weekly output: Boost Mobile, AI at BT, digital privacy, Elon Musk’s X agenda, Salt Typhoon breaches T-Mobile

    I have more than enough practice at traveling to the other side of the Atlantic, but this week’s trip to Lisbon for Web Summit had me sandbagged by jet lag almost every night. It appears that I never got my head into Western European Time, to judge from my not feeling wiped out in a “do not operate heavy machinery” way after I got home Friday night.

    11/11/2024: Boost Mobile Touts 5G Network Progress, Adds Sub-$100 5G Phone to Lineup, PCMag

    The advance copies of Boost’s PR materials were vague about some key points, but the carrier’s press rep did get back to me to clarify that the $10 billion network-buildout expense shared in them was a total estimate, not a forecast of costs to come.

    11/12/2024: Will Gen AI generate value for the corporate landscape?, Web Summit

    My first panel at this conference had me interviewing Alex Bell, BT’s digital director of service, and Michael Park, a senior vice president and global head of AI go-to-market at ServiceNow, about how the former company had enlisted the latter to put AI to work in some important IT and customer-service systems.

    11/12/2024: Secure swipe: protecting customer data, Web Summit

    My second and final panel–fewer than I usually field at this conference–put me on stage with Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower turned Own Your Data advocate, and Marcus Räder, founder and CEO of the lodging-services firm Hostaway, to discuss how companies collect and keep data and how they would be better off not hoarding so much customer information.

    11/14/2024: ‘Things Are Different for Elon’: Who Needs X When You Have Political Power?, PCMag

    I only wrote up one Web Summit panel for PCMag, but it was a very good one: New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac talking about Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. They went beyond their recount of that in their book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter to discuss our new oligarch-in-chief’s privileged perch in Donald Trump’s circles.

    11/16/2024: Chinese State-Sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Also Breached T-Mobile, PCMag

    I usually try to avoid writing posts on the weekend, but a) this was news that had gone uncovered at my client and b) I had written less than usual over the rest of the week and c) I have bills coming that aren’t going to pay themselves.

    #AI #BoostMobile #BrittanyKaiser #BT #ChineseHackers #ElonMuskTwitter #KateConger #Lisbon #oligarch #RyanMac #SaltTyphoon #TMobile #WebSummit

  14. theverge.com/2024/11/11/242916

    Boost Mobile has almost reached the FCC guidelines to be considered a full MNO (like Verizon or Sprint) rather than an MVNO it's current classification.

    The Exact status of this is a little complicated, and has its roots in the T-Mobile/sprint merger. The article covers it in more detail.

    #Boostmobile #MNO #

  15. theverge.com/2024/11/11/242916

    Boost Mobile has almost reached the FCC guidelines to be considered a full MNO (like Verizon or Sprint) rather than an MVNO it's current classification.

    The Exact status of this is a little complicated, and has its roots in the T-Mobile/sprint merger. The article covers it in more detail.

    #Boostmobile #MNO #

  16. Sunday started with Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and is ending with Kamala Harris as the increasingly likely Democratic presidential nominee. I am struck by the selflessness involved in somebody at the apex of political power assessing the circumstances and the stakes and deciding that they require taking himself out of contention–and how well that grace, however grudgingly it may have come, compares to Donald Trump’s incessant self-worship. As Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic: “Biden’s decision reflected a determination to put the fate of his country ahead of his personal vanity, a choice Trump is inherently incapable of making.”

    7/15/2024: Automation Lessens Zombie Account Risks, FedTech

    I last wrote for this publication in 2017, but I must have left a decent reputation there for an editor to e-mail me in April to ask if I could do a story about how government-IT types can ease staff transitions between administrations.

    7/17/2024: Boost Mobile Unwraps New Plans As 5G Network Buildout Chugs Along, PCMag

    We had to correct this post because I had missed how Boost’s most expensive plan does not include mobile hotspot use, even though two of its three cheaper options include it. Which is a dumb pricing game for any wireless carrier to play, but especially one that touts “simplified pricing” in its pitch for its new plans.

    7/17/2024: On Speed, T-Mobile Is First in Mobile Broadband, AT&T in Home Internet, PCMag

    Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest family of apps, offered me an advance on their latest connectivity report. I’m still confused by how they assessed only AT&T’s fiber service next to all of Verizon’s broadband options.

    7/18/2024: Google Ships Fourth And (We Hope) Last Android 15 Beta, PCMag

    This was the fifth time this year that I’ve written a short post about an incremental step in Android 15’s development cycle for PCMag.

    7/19/2024: Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of ‘Single Point of Failure’, PCMag

    As I read about the worldwide IT meltdown sparked by CrowdStrike’s epic failure of a driver update, I remembered seeing a CrowdStrike executive declaring at a Washington Post event in early June that “A resilient digital architecture should be able to weather a storm.” Awkward!

    Patreon readers got a bonus post related to this story, in which I recounted the continuing utility of keeping notes in a searchable digital format but also revealed that I still have paper notepads from more than 25 years ago–and recently got some unexpected use out of one.

    7/19/2024: Ep 103 SmartTechCheck Podcast–CrowdStrike, innovation drought, foldable phones and robotaxis, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to talk about a grab-bag of tech topics, one of them being Waymo’s robotaxis as I experienced them in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/21/weekly-output-zombie-accounts-boost-mobile-broadband-isp-ratings-android-15-beta-crowdstrike-mark-vena-podcast/

    #5G #Android15 #ATTFiber #BoostMobile #CrowdStrike #federalIT #MarkVena #Ookla #Speedtest #TMobile #wirelessCarriers #zombieAccounts

  17. Sunday started with Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and is ending with Kamala Harris as the increasingly likely Democratic presidential nominee. I am struck by the selflessness involved in somebody at the apex of political power assessing the circumstances and the stakes and deciding that they require taking himself out of contention–and how well that grace, however grudgingly it may have come, compares to Donald Trump’s incessant self-worship. As Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic: “Biden’s decision reflected a determination to put the fate of his country ahead of his personal vanity, a choice Trump is inherently incapable of making.”

    7/15/2024: Automation Lessens Zombie Account Risks, FedTech

    I last wrote for this publication in 2017, but I must have left a decent reputation there for an editor to e-mail me in April to ask if I could do a story about how government-IT types can ease staff transitions between administrations.

    7/17/2024: Boost Mobile Unwraps New Plans As 5G Network Buildout Chugs Along, PCMag

    We had to correct this post because I had missed how Boost’s most expensive plan does not include mobile hotspot use, even though two of its three cheaper options include it. Which is a dumb pricing game for any wireless carrier to play, but especially one that touts “simplified pricing” in its pitch for its new plans.

    7/17/2024: On Speed, T-Mobile Is First in Mobile Broadband, AT&T in Home Internet, PCMag

    Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest family of apps, offered me an advance on their latest connectivity report. I’m still confused by how they assessed only AT&T’s fiber service next to all of Verizon’s broadband options.

    7/18/2024: Google Ships Fourth And (We Hope) Last Android 15 Beta, PCMag

    This was the fifth time this year that I’ve written a short post about an incremental step in Android 15’s development cycle for PCMag.

    7/19/2024: Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of ‘Single Point of Failure’, PCMag

    As I read about the worldwide IT meltdown sparked by CrowdStrike’s epic failure of a driver update, I remembered seeing a CrowdStrike executive declaring at a Washington Post event in early June that “A resilient digital architecture should be able to weather a storm.” Awkward!

    Patreon readers got a bonus post related to this story, in which I recounted the continuing utility of keeping notes in a searchable digital format but also revealed that I still have paper notepads from more than 25 years ago–and recently got some unexpected use out of one.

    7/19/2024: Ep 103 SmartTechCheck Podcast–CrowdStrike, innovation drought, foldable phones and robotaxis, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to talk about a grab-bag of tech topics, one of them being Waymo’s robotaxis as I experienced them in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/21/weekly-output-zombie-accounts-boost-mobile-broadband-isp-ratings-android-15-beta-crowdstrike-mark-vena-podcast/

    #5G #Android15 #ATTFiber #BoostMobile #CrowdStrike #federalIT #MarkVena #Ookla #Speedtest #TMobile #wirelessCarriers #zombieAccounts

  18. 1/2
    #Telstra #BoostMobile doing the standard customer fuckage.

    I try to recover my account.
    Page says an email will be sent.
    No email arrives.
    I wonder why, try alternative address, retry original etc, etc

    So eventually I contact Support.

    See next Toot for why I never received the promised emails.

    #FuckTheCustomerOver

  19. 1/2
    #Telstra #BoostMobile doing the standard customer fuckage.

    I try to recover my account.
    Page says an email will be sent.
    No email arrives.
    I wonder why, try alternative address, retry original etc, etc

    So eventually I contact Support.

    See next Toot for why I never received the promised emails.

    #FuckTheCustomerOver

  20. #Telstra's #PrepaidMobile subsidiary #BoostMobile tells me my current plan $230/170Gb/365days has been discontinued.
    The only reasonable replacement is $300/240GB/365days. No use for the data, using only ~5GB/mth

    And today I find that, contrary to what technical support told me, voicemail has not been switched off. So I had multiple messages that I hadn't responded to. :knitting: [guillotine emoji]

    I've got some 10 months to find a less-ripoff mobile phone provider.

    #ConsumingIn2024 #Churn

  21. #Telstra's #PrepaidMobile subsidiary #BoostMobile tells me my current plan $230/170Gb/365days has been discontinued.
    The only reasonable replacement is $300/240GB/365days. No use for the data, using only ~5GB/mth

    And today I find that, contrary to what technical support told me, voicemail has not been switched off. So I had multiple messages that I hadn't responded to. :knitting: [guillotine emoji]

    I've got some 10 months to find a less-ripoff mobile phone provider.

    #ConsumingIn2024 #Churn

  22. CW: experience with mobile carriers

    We have five cellphones here at HyperTwin Manor -- four people and one spare phone.

    Up until last year or so, we were using Republic Wireless because at the time we first signed up (2017) what they offered was pretty progressive. They're also based near us (Raleigh) which, although it doesn't exactly make them a "local business", nonetheless seemed like a plus. (I mean, why ship those wireless megabytes all the way across the country from Silicon Valley if I can get them from closer?*)

    Then last year or so, they got bought up by Dish Network, and the enshittification process began. To start with, they dropped support for calls-over-wifi, giving the justification that most modern phones supported it in hardware -- which my main phone doesn't, and it immediately began to be difficult to send and receive texts from inside the office.

    So I started looking around, and found Mint Mobile -- which offered (at the time) 4GB/mo instead of RW's 1GB for (effectively) $5 less per month ($15). They sent a spare "try out out" SIM with one of my original orders, and that became the spare phone.

    After thinking it over for a bit, I started the process of switching our phones over -- but part of RW's Enshittification Process means that you can no longer get the PIN to transfer your number out by going to Republic's web site; you have to call them. (Can you say "customer lock-in", boys and girls?)

    Folks, I have phone-phobia, so this was a BFD. I had the spoons to do it for my phone and (eventually) one of the kids' phones (the one who kept using up his 1GB accidentally), and then I ran out of steam.

    ...and then just this past month, Republic (and Dish? dunno) got bought up by Boost Mobile. We were sent new SIMs and told that the price would now be $25 (another $5 more, making it $10 more than Mint).

    I have no real prior experience with Boost, and a vaguely negative impression of them, so my first thought was "okay, now we really need to move the last 2 phones over) -- but apparently the plan we're on is this new(?) service, Boost Infinite, which has "unlimited bandwidth"... which usually means "we don't cut you off completely after the limit, just throttle you down to liek a bad DSL connection in the rain", but I can find no indication that there's actually any limit.

    So... even though it's an extra $20/mo, I'm willing to give it a try and see how the service is.

    I figure there's got to be a catch somewhere. It does still allow the phones to be used as hotspots, but it's possible there's some kind of throttling on that ("unlimited" data plans tend to throttle hotspots or disallow them, in my experience). If there isn't, then we could in theory use a phone as a backup internet if Spectrum goes out (...so there's really got to be a catch, somewhere).

    * This is humor. It is permitted to giggle.
    #mobileService #BoostMobile RepublicWireless #MintMobile

    cc: @Harena

  23. CW: experience with mobile carriers

    We have five cellphones here at HyperTwin Manor -- four people and one spare phone.

    Up until last year or so, we were using Republic Wireless because at the time we first signed up (2017) what they offered was pretty progressive. They're also based near us (Raleigh) which, although it doesn't exactly make them a "local business", nonetheless seemed like a plus. (I mean, why ship those wireless megabytes all the way across the country from Silicon Valley if I can get them from closer?*)

    Then last year or so, they got bought up by Dish Network, and the enshittification process began. To start with, they dropped support for calls-over-wifi, giving the justification that most modern phones supported it in hardware -- which my main phone doesn't, and it immediately began to be difficult to send and receive texts from inside the office.

    So I started looking around, and found Mint Mobile -- which offered (at the time) 4GB/mo instead of RW's 1GB for (effectively) $5 less per month ($15). They sent a spare "try out out" SIM with one of my original orders, and that became the spare phone.

    After thinking it over for a bit, I started the process of switching our phones over -- but part of RW's Enshittification Process means that you can no longer get the PIN to transfer your number out by going to Republic's web site; you have to call them. (Can you say "customer lock-in", boys and girls?)

    Folks, I have phone-phobia, so this was a BFD. I had the spoons to do it for my phone and (eventually) one of the kids' phones (the one who kept using up his 1GB accidentally), and then I ran out of steam.

    ...and then just this past month, Republic (and Dish? dunno) got bought up by Boost Mobile. We were sent new SIMs and told that the price would now be $25 (another $5 more, making it $10 more than Mint).

    I have no real prior experience with Boost, and a vaguely negative impression of them, so my first thought was "okay, now we really need to move the last 2 phones over) -- but apparently the plan we're on is this new(?) service, Boost Infinite, which has "unlimited bandwidth"... which usually means "we don't cut you off completely after the limit, just throttle you down to liek a bad DSL connection in the rain", but I can find no indication that there's actually any limit.

    So... even though it's an extra $20/mo, I'm willing to give it a try and see how the service is.

    I figure there's got to be a catch somewhere. It does still allow the phones to be used as hotspots, but it's possible there's some kind of throttling on that ("unlimited" data plans tend to throttle hotspots or disallow them, in my experience). If there isn't, then we could in theory use a phone as a backup internet if Spectrum goes out (...so there's really got to be a catch, somewhere).

    * This is humor. It is permitted to giggle.
    #mobileService #BoostMobile RepublicWireless #MintMobile

    cc: @Harena

  24. New depths for #BoostMobile. Twice they lied to me today. When I called to get my account number and transfer PIN, the service staff said they couldn't give it to me without calling me on my phone (which is of course out of service, thanks to them), so I had to go to the Boost Mobile store for confirmation. Went through the whole "escalation" thing again, but this time they let slip they weren't forwarding me to Tech Support but to Retention, each time, just to make it hard for me.

  25. New depths for #BoostMobile. Twice they lied to me today. When I called to get my account number and transfer PIN, the service staff said they couldn't give it to me without calling me on my phone (which is of course out of service, thanks to them), so I had to go to the Boost Mobile store for confirmation. Went through the whole "escalation" thing again, but this time they let slip they weren't forwarding me to Tech Support but to Retention, each time, just to make it hard for me.

  26. Another phone call to #BoostMobile. The operator insisted my phone can't make/receive calls/texts because of faulty cell phone towers. I pointed out I'm calling from my wife's phone, also a Boost customer, who experiences no such troubles.

    I told the operator to try calling my number and seeing what message she gets. First she called my wife's phone, then hung up on me. Called back, got tech support, he gave me the same excuse and told me to wait 24–72 hours.

    Filed another BBB report.

  27. Another phone call to #BoostMobile. The operator insisted my phone can't make/receive calls/texts because of faulty cell phone towers. I pointed out I'm calling from my wife's phone, also a Boost customer, who experiences no such troubles.

    I told the operator to try calling my number and seeing what message she gets. First she called my wife's phone, then hung up on me. Called back, got tech support, he gave me the same excuse and told me to wait 24–72 hours.

    Filed another BBB report.

  28. Progress on my phone!

    And by that, I mean no progress has been made.

    I was told to wait 24 hours for my phone to reset. I waited 48 hours and nothing improved.

    I called now and the support tried to insist I can't send/receive calls/texts because of an issue with the cell phone towers. Twice I demanded that she escalate the issue; instead, she opened up tickets with tech support (locked phone) and IT (can't login to #BoostMobile website).

    The incompetence is thick, deep, and wide.

  29. Progress on my phone!

    And by that, I mean no progress has been made.

    I was told to wait 24 hours for my phone to reset. I waited 48 hours and nothing improved.

    I called now and the support tried to insist I can't send/receive calls/texts because of an issue with the cell phone towers. Twice I demanded that she escalate the issue; instead, she opened up tickets with tech support (locked phone) and IT (can't login to #BoostMobile website).

    The incompetence is thick, deep, and wide.

  30. See, #BoostMobile and #MintMobile were merely incompetent. They lost my phone number through incompetence, I fought them for three weeks over incompetence.

    #RealID is a #conservative conspiracy to obstruct, harass, and create criminals where there were none. All my paperwork (driver's license, social security, tax returns, military record, etc.) except my birth certificate (clerical error) list my legal name as W, so the MN DPS-DVS has decided my court order for name change is invalid.

  31. See, #BoostMobile and #MintMobile were merely incompetent. They lost my phone number through incompetence, I fought them for three weeks over incompetence.

    #RealID is a #conservative conspiracy to obstruct, harass, and create criminals where there were none. All my paperwork (driver's license, social security, tax returns, military record, etc.) except my birth certificate (clerical error) list my legal name as W, so the MN DPS-DVS has decided my court order for name change is invalid.

  32. Boost Mobile Fixed their Bill Payment Issues. 📱📶📵
    Customers in various states, such as California, New York, Texas, and Florida, have reported network-related issues. androidinfotech.com/boost-mobi

  33. Dish closes Boost Mobile purchase, following T-Mobile/Sprint merger - T-Mobile today announced that it has closed a deal that divests Sprint’s pre-paid businesses, inclu... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #boostmobile #t-mobile #mobile #sprint #dish #fcc

  34. Dish is finally a mobile provider—but doesn’t operate its own network yet - Enlarge (credit: Dish Network)
    Dish Network has completed a $1.4 billion acquisition of Boost Mob... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1688891 #boostmobile #t-mobile #biz&it #policy #dish

  35. Boost Mobile says hackers broke into customer accounts - Boost Mobile, a virtual mobile network owned by Sprint, has confirmed hackers have broken into an un... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #computersecurity #securitybreaches #datasecurity #boostmobile #california #databreach #e-commerce #security #sprint #hack