Boost Mobile

[HipKat]

I was driving through a rough area of Cleveland earlier tonight and saw this which is a pretty good representation of what people associate Boost with. Charlie really should have launched Dish or Sling Wireless, along with home 5G where they launched towers.

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And I see Boost stores in the suburbs, also. I see Verizon stores in urban areas as well

 

[Bobby]

And I see Boost stores in the suburbs, also. I see Verizon stores in urban areas as well

Boost is in most Walmarts...

 

[tanman]

My Wife's cell number ends with -0000.

I had a verizon number that ended with 0002.When I first started celling cell phones for Radio Shack Verizon did not have a local phone number for our area. I always had to warn people that the phone number they were getting was in state long distance. Back then that was a big issue for some people, IE If their wife called them from home their landline would be paying an in state long distance call in some cases. So I was selling a phone when the local exchange popped up as an option. That customer got 0001. I immediately switched my number to 0002. In this case there was no 0000 to chose.

 

[tanman]

I had no difficulty whatsoever porting my landline phone number over to Ooma in 2022. I have a friend who ported his landline number over to Ooma literally decades ago.

I got Ooma back in 2010. I forgot-I had ported my landline to vonage. But Vonage was worse than Dish as far as raising their rates. My 626 exchange just was not on Ooma's list back then. Believe me I tried-I still have the email exchanges. It took a number of years before it became available. By then anybody i wanted to have my number had it.
I'm also cringing because it looks like I paid $200 bucks for the Telo!

 

[EarDemon]

My Wife's cell number ends with -0000.

My very first cell phone number from Nextel was similar, 716-x0x-x000. When I got the iPhone in 2009, AT&T let you pick from a handful of numbers when setting up the account and one immediately jumped out at me where nearly every other number was a 5. I didn't want to port out since 1) I didn't know if I was going to keep the iPhone and 2) I didn't want to be associated with the 716 area code. That number went from AT&T -> Sprint -> Verizon -> Sprint -> T-Mobile (prior to the buyout) and is my main number to this day. My old Nextel number was ported to various USB modems and hot spots and is now my HughesNet Voice number. When I signed up for FirstNet, AT&T still lets you choose your number, I picked one with a lot of 3s and a lot of 5s in the 607 area code. For Verizon, I picked the 315 area code, they let you pick the exchange from a few predefined choices, but assign the last four.

I was driving through a rough area of Cleveland earlier tonight and saw this which is a pretty good representation of what people associate Boost with. Charlie really should have launched Dish or Sling Wireless, along with home 5G where they launched towers.

Yep, been saying this all along. A name means a lot, and to me Boost = Gang bangers, drug dealers and pimps. Metro and Cricket are in the same category

IIRC when Charlie sold all that spectrum to AT&T they made a deal to have Boost moved up in priority on the AT&T towers and to pretty much assure that Boost will survive one way or another no matter what happens to Dish or Charlie.

Do you recall where you read that? I've re-read the AT&T press release and checked articles published by some of the industry sites and have not seen anything that states that. Boost being moved up the totem pole really has nothing to do with their survival if Dish is no longer in control of the brand. And as far as I can tell Boost is still a QCI 9 on the AT&T network, please prove me wrong if I am incorrect, which is below normal post paid. Boost customers are low value, I don't see any of three MNOs wanting to deal with them directly.

FCC rules allow consumers switching providers to keep their number, and Boost itself has a defined port-out process. You get the Boost account information and a port-out PIN and move the number to another carrier.
Even if a carrier actually ceased operations, disconnected residential numbers cannot immediately be thrown back into the pool. FCC numbering rules require at least a 45-day aging period before reassignment.

While I would think you'd be able to get your number back, I would be concerned with some type of limbo period. Charlie has been pretty shady when it comes to all things wireless, since he feels he no longer has to honor agreements and pay vendors, what's to stop him from not providing a orderly exit? What does he care? If he can screw over vendors, he most certianly can screw over soon to be ex-customers.

 

[HipKat]

While I would think you'd be able to get your number back, I would be concerned with some type of limbo period. Charlie has been pretty shady when it comes to all things wireless, since he feels he no longer has to honor agreements and pay vendors, what's to stop him from not providing a orderly exit? What does he care? If he can screw over vendors, he most certianly can screw over soon to be ex-customers.

Charlie doesn't control operations at Boost. Boost still has to abide by the laws and rules set by the FCC.

Yep, been saying this all along. A name means a lot, and to me Boost = Gang bangers, drug dealers and pimps. Metro and Cricket are in the same category

Good friggin grief, dude. Boost stores, like ALL Wireless stores, are in every type of neighborhood in every city. And most wireless providers have similar pricing as Boost.