Boost Mobile

[spacenerd]

I know this is for Dish TV service but was wondering if anyone has gone from Verizon to the Dish Boost Mobile cell phone service and would you recommend it.
John

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Hard question to answer as its based on where you are.

Verizon may be crap in your area and Boost may be good. Or Vice Versa.

I have played with all the carries in a number of areas and in each area there was a different best service for each.

Not the answer you were looking for I am sure.

I tested Boost here in CT and it was Horrible. I used the same device in Springfield Mass and the speeds were amazing. It all depends on where you are, so again a very very hard question to answer.

 

[Foxbat]

I switched from Cricket to Boost, and in my area of travel, so far all the service appears to be coming from the same AT&T towers as Cricket, so I haven't seen any real difference in service, just a $20/mo drop in cost between what I was paying and now. And I'm not taking advantage of Dish's Boost deal, so it could drop even further.

 

[HipKat]

I know this is for Dish TV service but was wondering if anyone has gone from Verizon to the Dish Boost Mobile cell phone service and would you recommend it.
John

I would say about a third of the guys in my office have made the switch and all say they don't regret it. Service, like all services has some weak areas, but some say they get signal in some remote places they never did with whoever they came from

 

[John2021]

There offering a 30 day money back if your not happy

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[EarDemon]

Boost is nothing more than an AT&T MVNO at this point. Whatever AT&T service is like in your area, that's how Boost will be.

Whatever native Dish Wireless sites are still online, I wouldn't expect them to be much longer
Crown Castle: Dish Wireless defaulted on tower payments

For what it's worth, for the month or so I had Boost, I never connected to their native network using an eSIM, and service was mostly identical to my AT&T (FirstNet) line, with the exception of the FirstNet line prioritizing band 14. Boost had no problems connecting to AT&Ts n77, and I was able to get gigabit speeds. The pSIM that was sent to me, that I could not use, was the black SIM, so AT&T only. I doubt they are issuing Rainbow pSIMs anymore, but I welcome anyone to prove me wrong.

If you are a data hog like I am, you may find Boost's max of 50 GB of premium data not enough.

 

[jackson85]

I know this is for Dish TV service but was wondering if anyone has gone from Verizon to the Dish Boost Mobile cell phone service and would you recommend it.
John

I have Verizon and like it, but there is really no other option, other than AT&T, and AT&T is crappy

 

[HipKat]

Boost is nothing more than an AT&T MVNO at this point. Whatever AT&T service is like in your area, that's how Boost will be.

Whatever native Dish Wireless sites are still online, I wouldn't expect them to be much longer
Crown Castle: Dish Wireless defaulted on tower payments

For what it's worth, for the month or so I had Boost, I never connected to their native network using an eSIM, and service was mostly identical to my AT&T (FirstNet) line, with the exception of the FirstNet line prioritizing band 14. Boost had no problems connecting to AT&Ts n77, and I was able to get gigabit speeds. The pSIM that was sent to me, that I could not use, was the black SIM, so AT&T only. I doubt they are issuing Rainbow pSIMs anymore, but I welcome anyone to prove me wrong.

If you are a data hog like I am, you may find Boost's max of 50 GB of premium data not enough.

Boost uses AT&T and T-Mobile Sim cards, so no, it's not just what AT&T is like in your area. At least in my office, we haven't used the black PSims in months

 

[reubenray]

I tested a Dish hotspot when they first came out with so-so service. I did not check a phone. I have a tower less than a mile away with Dish and Verizon antennas on it. I saw several more towers with Dish within three miles being installed. My contract with T-Mobile runs out in about six months and I am paying $130 a month for two phones. I don't use my phone much and my wife does not use a lot. I may talk to someone on my phone two or three times a week. I may check into the Boost/Dish offer. Both of our phones are compatible. How would I get T-Mobile to unlock them? I also don't use a lot of data on our phones.

 

[Radioguy41]

Hard to believe in this day and age that people are still accepting locked phones. This is too simple, buy an unlocked phone then opt in to an MVNO that's uses whatever service you prefer. I have an unlocked T-Mobile 5G phone and I use an MVNO called Tello; unlimited talk and text plus 2G of data (I seldom use date, that's what computers are for) and my monthly bill is,,,,,, $10 plus the obligatory govt fees. You read it correctly, ten dollars. Come on folks, do some homework.

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[Strega]

I used tracfone for many years paying around $9/month (including taxes/fees). They were great until I had a problem (data just stopped) and they couldn't solve it after a couple of weeks of daily calls. Several of my friends had already left for the same reason. (Different issues, but Tracfone just didn't/couldn't solve them.)

I ended up at Consumer Cellular at $20/month. Basically after no service, I went the other way with a company that has lots of easily accessible US support. So far so good.

Since so many entities use SMS for 2FA, I'm beginning to wonder if SIM card security policies might be the thing I should be most worried about with a phone company.

 

[John2021]

Hard to believe in this day and age that people are still accepting locked phones. This is too simple, buy an unlocked phone then opt in to an MVNO that's uses whatever service you prefer. I have an unlocked T-Mobile 5G phone and I use an MVNO called Tello; unlimited talk and text plus 2G of data (I seldom use date, that's what computers are for) and my monthly bill is,,,,,, $10 plus the obligatory govt fees. You read it correctly, ten dollars. Come on folks, do some homework.

you can buy a locked phone and have a 3rd party unlock it for you for a fee. but unlocked phones don't cost anymore than there locked counterparts and unlocked phones hold ther value better if you ever want to sell