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expired Posted by WackyP • Feb 23, 2024
Feb 23, 2024 11:38 AM
Boost Mobile: New Customers: 1st Year of Unlimited Talk, Text & Data
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When you activate, the SIM uses its $150 credit to purchase 1 year of service at the discounted rate of $150.
If you fail to activate in the time frame, which is anywhere from 3-6 months, they will charge you full price (an additional $150) and add it to the SIM cards balance for when/if you ever activate it.
No matter what, you are purchasing 1 year of service and the SIM card they send will forever have 1 year of prepaid service sitting on it. Whether you activate in 1 day or 3 years it will still work, the only difference is whether you pay $150 or $300 for that SIM.
Wasted so much time and energy when I bit on a Slick Deal last year and they overcharged me $180 which took 10+ calls and 2 months to get back (They initially issued it as credit to my account and I had to fight even more to get it back to my card)
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Boost also does NOT give you a choice of which network sim they will be sending you. You might be able to activate on At&t if you already have a At&t black sim. No promises that it would work though. At&t sims can be bought on ebay for $10 if you wish to try.
Once you activate a sim on Boost, that number cannot switch to the other network without porting out.
T-Mobile was what I wanted. I received T-Mobile (It was their choice, I had no say), which has a tower about one mile from my house. I'm very rural and while it has 5G on it, it's band n71, so not super-fast but will work well when my fiber is down, or power is out.
In the small town about 15 miles away, I was getting 600Mbps downloads on 5G. I had left T-Mobile when they took my account from Sprint. I must say, at least in my rural location, they have improved service.
"By clicking 'Buy Now' or 'Pay with PayPal', you agree to pay the amount due today. Your service will not begin until your SIM is activated. If you are getting a new phone number, your SIM will be automatically activated 2-3 days after order."
So i guess if I am getting a new number, it will be automatically activated even I don't do anything, which is not what I want. I want to wait until my current plan with Mint unlimited to end first and then activate this one.
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Pay Monthly
Unlimited
$150.00/mo
Total Due Monthly
$/mo
Paid Today
Boost SIM Kit Envelope
$0.00
Shipping
$0.00
Taxes
$1.76
Surcharges
$0.00
Total Paid Today
$151.76
ie, you will only be charged $150/year, not per month. But it'll likely show as per month in some places. On their website it'll show the wrong dates for service expiry/next payment/etc in some places, but not in others. If you try and ask them about it, you'll likely get a different answer.
Sit back, ignore things like what you saw, presume it's all OK, and it probably will be. That's about the best advice I can give for using Boost (well, other than "don't" but it's too late for that now!)
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By offering aggressive promotions like this, they can attract new customers quickly and disrupt the pricing models of established carriers. That is, Boost Mobile is more than just a MVNO, they if anything, are a tool for Dish to establish their brand and to meet their buildout obligations to the US Government for all the spectrum they own.
Since Dish wants to establish itself as a major player across the entire wireless market, they need customers to use their core network. That network at the moment is even smaller than the old Sprint network, thus attracting subscribers with discounted plans allows them to test their network capacity, identify potential issues, and gain valuable usage data that informs their network expansion. No one would want to use a service that did not work away from their home city, or as I remember, cost prohibited away from home.
Related, all carriers collect vast amounts of data on customer usage patterns, and a lot of this is held as proprietary and used as a business advantage. Even on promotional plans, Dish gains valuable insights into how people use their phones, which can help them tailor future plans and services. They are, after all, trying to create the 'big four' vs the current big three, so like I said, this is more than trying to compete with lost-cost MVNOs.
I suspect that Dish is getting bulk services from T-Mobile and AT&T at a good discount since they loaned spectrum to AT&T and T-Mobile for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote work, telemedicine, e-commerce and remote schooling put a larger load on those networks. They have agreements to use (at a cost) T-Mobile's network until 2027 and AT&T's until 2031.
By those dates, Dish's raw 'owned' spectrum will be worth around 100 billion dollars. Sure, they need revenue, thirsty, not so sure.
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