Founder’s Message + Wireless Offer

[dweber]

As a loyal Dish Customer for 24 years 7 months I enjoyed watching Charlie Ergan, Candy Ergan, and Jim DeFranco give the history of Dish. It makes me appreciate the risks and the hard work that they did to establish Dish network.
I recently renegotiated a two year price lock. I downgraded from 250 channels to 200 channels + Dish movie pack for $177.45 per month. I realize streaming is cheaper but I truly enjoy my two Hopper 3 receivers and my Joey 3 client.
My cell phone is currently T-Mobile that I have through my son. He says he pays approximately $40 per month for my line.
I am going to investigate Dish Boost Mobile. They claim the cost for current Dish customers is $15 per month forever for unlimited talk, text, and data. I live halfway between Plain City and Marysville Ohio so if the reception is good I will probably switch. I own my IPhone 12 Pro Max so I would keep my existing phone.


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[Foxbat]

I received the same flyer. Mrs. Foxbat is on a grandfathered $30/mo. T-Mobile Pre-Paid that has unlimited Text and Data, but only 30 minutes of Talk. Since we signed up for this, her parents have had a change in their life status and she gets called by her Mom all the time, eating up her monthly allotment of Talk minutes.

Plus, the Coverage Maps for Boost include our summer vacation location, which T-Mobile doesn't. It seems like something to try out.

 

[HipKat]

As a loyal Dish Customer for 24 years 7 months I enjoyed watching Charlie Ergan, Candy Ergan, and Jim DeFranco give the history of Dish. It makes me appreciate the risks and the hard work that they did to establish Dish network.
I recently renegotiated a two year price lock. I downgraded from 250 channels to 200 channels + Dish movie pack for $177.45 per month. I realize streaming is cheaper but I truly enjoy my two Hopper 3 receivers and my Joey 3 client.
My cell phone is currently T-Mobile that I have through my son. He says he pays approximately $40 per month for my line.
I am going to investigate Dish Boost Mobile. They claim the cost for current Dish customers is $15 per month forever for unlimited talk, text, and data. I live halfway between Plain City and Marysville Ohio so if the reception is good I will probably switch. I own my IPhone 12 Pro Max so I would keep my existing phone.


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TBF, that $15/mo is for pay-as-you-go and bringing your own device. It's unlimited talk and text plus 30GB of data.
You can get a contract for up to $50/mo (plus device costs if you buy a new phone)

If you want to get info and help me out, there's a toll-free number you can call: 855-940-4893. I get a referral with that number

 

[cpdretired]

As a loyal Dish Customer for 24 years 7 months I enjoyed watching Charlie Ergan, Candy Ergan, and Jim DeFranco give the history of Dish. It makes me appreciate the risks and the hard work that they did to establish Dish network.
I recently renegotiated a two year price lock. I downgraded from 250 channels to 200 channels + Dish movie pack for $177.45 per month. I realize streaming is cheaper but I truly enjoy my two Hopper 3 receivers and my Joey 3 client.
My cell phone is currently T-Mobile that I have through my son. He says he pays approximately $40 per month for my line.
I am going to investigate Dish Boost Mobile. They claim the cost for current Dish customers is $15 per month forever for unlimited talk, text, and data. I live halfway between Plain City and Marysville Ohio so if the reception is good I will probably switch. I own my IPhone 12 Pro Max so I would keep my existing phone.


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In my T Mobile plan I get free Netflix and a few others. I have the Magenta 55+ plan. See if it is offered in his plan. I pay $80.00 per month for two lines.

 

[telstar_1]

As a loyal Dish Customer for 24 years 7 months I enjoyed watching Charlie Ergan, Candy Ergan, and Jim DeFranco give the history of Dish. It makes me appreciate the risks and the hard work that they did to establish Dish network.
I recently renegotiated a two year price lock. I downgraded from 250 channels to 200 channels + Dish movie pack for $177.45 per month. I realize streaming is cheaper but I truly enjoy my two Hopper 3 receivers and my Joey 3 client.
My cell phone is currently T-Mobile that I have through my son. He says he pays approximately $40 per month for my line.
I am going to investigate Dish Boost Mobile. They claim the cost for current Dish customers is $15 per month forever for unlimited talk, text, and data. I live halfway between Plain City and Marysville Ohio so if the reception is good I will probably switch. I own my IPhone 12 Pro Max so I would keep my existing phone.


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Good luck with that. As a dealer I enjoyed their recounting of early sat installing days and becoming a distributor, like how they decided to change the name from Echosphere to Echostar after seeing that Japanese couldn't pronounce it. They began literally as one of us, one of tens of thousands of dealers across the country, then as one of 100s (or, 'hunderds' as Charlie would say, half-pronouncing it in German) of equipment distributors, then purchasing one of the best of the dozens of supplier/manufacturers, HTS. Then of course the startup of DiSH- there were so many c-band dealers then that DTV/USSB had actually left many out of being able to do them in '94-'95 and had further opted to sell gear direct to user through retail stores. Whilst DiSH otoh appealed to the quite many big-dish dealers still going, promising to center on them as key to customer satisfaction and "delivering the promise that cable broke".

But then there I saw it, not long after we started putting them in- ad in Parade magazine, NOT to refer a dealer, but to purchase directly from them. Asked about it, I was told that their callcenter CSRs "deserved to make some money, too". Also they had badly wanted to also be in all the big-box stores (direct-selling, of course) but DTV/USSB (always thought they were like the USSR) had locked up exclusives with most. So meanwhile yeah, they let us dealers all sign up to do DiSH, and then some- all kinds of people who had never been around offair or satellite but HAD been around scamming all their lives. They made account activation their payoff proposition rather than completed installation and satisfaction, and so guess what, all the scammers sold people and "activated" them with DiSH with no installed system. Or sold and installed them at an exorbitant price whilst telling them the service is free for life. Well then guess what, now we're all crooks, the good & the bad, and so they start "punishing" us with ever more draconian "business rules" and chargebacks of commissions. He even took away promised residuals, which resulted in a lawsuit by dealers and damages awarded. Whilst persisting in prioritizing selling over satisfying. And whilst of course continuing to ramp their direct-sell. They even helped their direct-sold customer out by sending him a "free self-install kit" so he could just put up his own DiSH!

So I guess liking (or trusting) DiSH is simply a matter of perspective.

 

[dishdude]

In my T Mobile plan I get free Netflix and a few others. I have the Magenta 55+ plan. See if it is offered in his plan. I pay $80.00 per month for two lines.

My dad is on that plan, it's a great deal.

 

[Almighty1]

TBF, that $15/mo is for pay-as-you-go and bringing your own device. It's unlimited talk and text plus 30GB of data.
You can get a contract for up to $50/mo (plus device costs if you buy a new phone)

If you want to get info and help me out, there's a toll-free number you can call: 855-940-4893. I get a referral with that number

What phones are available for purchase and the prices for the phones? Also, am I reading correctly that the $15/month includes all fees and taxes?

 

[HipKat]

What phones are available for purchase and the prices for the phones? Also, am I reading correctly that the $15/month includes all fees and taxes?

Not sure about fees. Normally, it's $25, but bundled with Dish gets a $10 discount. Much like the way Dishnet worked with billing,
You can see the phones on Boost's website. They have the most current Samsungs and iPhones, the Motorola Flip-phones - that I think are pretty cool. My 20-year-old has one through T-Mobile

 

[EarDemon]

Yesterday after work I took a drive to the one Boost Store in Western NY that's not in the ghetto and I don't have to worry about my car not being broken into while I'm not around hoping to sign up for Unlimited+ for $50 and have it on an eSIM. Stupid me, I should have done my homework, Pixel phones are not supported when it comes to eSIM on Boost. So I walked out.

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a tower in my area that used to only have one rack of panels and antennas now has three. It was Verizon only and there used to be very weak T-Mobile reception in that area and now it's almost 1 Gbps n41, AT&T was still kinda weak, but not unusable at that location so I would have to assume it's Boost that's the third provider on the tower.

Like I said in another thread, I have no desire to make Boost my primary or secondary or tertiary carrier. I use way too much data, and the paltry 50 GB of priority data on the top plan isn't nearly enough. I just want to play for a few months or until Boost goes belly up, which ever comes first.

 

[scoob83]

Yesterday after work I took a drive to the one Boost Store in Western NY that's not in the ghetto and I don't have to worry about my car not being broken into while I'm not around hoping to sign up for Unlimited+ for $50 and have it on an eSIM. Stupid me, I should have done my homework, Pixel phones are not supported when it comes to eSIM on Boost. So I walked out.

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a tower in my area that used to only have one rack of panels and antennas now has three. It was Verizon only and there used to be very weak T-Mobile reception in that area and now it's almost 1 Gbps n41, AT&T was still kinda weak, but not unusable at that location so I would have to assume it's Boost that's the third provider on the tower.

Like I said in another thread, I have no desire to make Boost my primary or secondary or tertiary carrier. I use way too much data, and the paltry 50 GB of priority data on the top plan isn't nearly enough. I just want to play for a few months or until Boost goes belly up, which ever comes first.

They likely haven't turned it on/calibrated it yet. It's probably TMo or AT&T. I have an AT&T tower down the road from me and noticed another row of antennas show up earlier this year. I always had only 1 bar of TMo, and about a month later I suddenly had full bars Gigabit speeds. Took about a month to be fully functional.


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[Derek K]

This is really no different than what Xfinity and Spectrum mobile are doing when it comes to bundling their cell phone service with their cable plan.to make you a more stickier customer.

The only real difference is that you got Xfinity and Spectrum who use the Verizon network, where as Boost uses the T-Mobile Network. I just don't have very much faith in Boost, or T-Mobile when it comes to cell phone service.

I prefer dealing with AT&T or Verizon as the underlying carrier.

I currently have one line on my iPhone with AT&T and another with Consumer Cellular. Customer service from both carriers has been great! I like consumer cellular because they have US based customer service.

AT&T I believe has foreign based call centers. I called into AT&T today and the guy started speaking in Spanish, and when I asked him to speak English he had a slight accent. However absolutely no issues what so ever dealing with AT&T.

Before I switched to consumer cellular, I had Xfinity and I absolutely could not stand their customer service and being forced to use their app to do a simple SIM swap.

T-Mobile on the other hand, I tried using twice and both times it ended with a complaint to the state attorney general.

 

[Radioguy41]

I just don't have very much faith in Boost, or T-Mobile when it comes to cell phone service.

I prefer dealing with AT&T or Verizon as the underlying carrier.

That's not what I'm seeing. When CC switched from T-Mobile to AT&T I lost 5G and Verizon is a non-starter, I wouldn't touch either with a stick. I switched to an MVNO operating on T-Mobile and haven't looked back, better coverage and better service.

As to the remark about Boost operating on T-Mobile, people really need to stop saying that. Boost has it's own towers and while some parts of the country still use TM towers it is an increasingly smaller segment. Too many commentators on here that are stuck in the past and keep offering the same old, and I do mean old, comments based on opinions that are based on misinformation.

 

[HipKat]

Yesterday after work I took a drive to the one Boost Store in Western NY that's not in the ghetto and I don't have to worry about my car not being broken into while I'm not around hoping to sign up for Unlimited+ for $50 and have it on an eSIM. Stupid me, I should have done my homework, Pixel phones are not supported when it comes to eSIM on Boost. So I walked out.

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a tower in my area that used to only have one rack of panels and antennas now has three. It was Verizon only and there used to be very weak T-Mobile reception in that area and now it's almost 1 Gbps n41, AT&T was still kinda weak, but not unusable at that location so I would have to assume it's Boost that's the third provider on the tower.

Like I said in another thread, I have no desire to make Boost my primary or secondary or tertiary carrier. I use way too much data, and the paltry 50 GB of priority data on the top plan isn't nearly enough. I just want to play for a few months or until Boost goes belly up, which ever comes first.

Wait, you're in WNY?? Did we have this conversation before??
And yeah, Boost doesn't have Pixels, which is why I stay on T-Mobile. BTW, I had excellent signal everywhere around Buffalo when I came home in May

 

[HipKat]

This is really no different than what Xfinity and Spectrum mobile are doing when it comes to bundling their cell phone service with their cable plan.to make you a more stickier customer.

The only real difference is that you got Xfinity and Spectrum who use the Verizon network, where as Boost uses the T-Mobile Network. I just don't have very much faith in Boost, or T-Mobile when it comes to cell phone service.

I prefer dealing with AT&T or Verizon as the underlying carrier.

I currently have one line on my iPhone with AT&T and another with Consumer Cellular. Customer service from both carriers has been great! I like consumer cellular because they have US based customer service.

AT&T I believe has foreign based call centers. I called into AT&T today and the guy started speaking in Spanish, and when I asked him to speak English he had a slight accent. However absolutely no issues what so ever dealing with AT&T.

Before I switched to consumer cellular, I had Xfinity and I absolutely could not stand their customer service and being forced to use their app to do a simple SIM swap.

T-Mobile on the other hand, I tried using twice and both times it ended with a complaint to the state attorney general.

That's all up to where you are. I've had TM for 5 years - been awesome about everywhere I go and has gotten better over those years. Where I live, AT&T is useless.

 

[navychop]

T-Mobile on the other hand, I tried using twice and both times it ended with a complaint to the state attorney general.

What did you do so bad they reported you to the State?

 

[EarDemon]

This is really no different than what Xfinity and Spectrum mobile are doing when it comes to bundling their cell phone service with their cable plan.to make you a more stickier customer.

The only real difference is that you got Xfinity and Spectrum who use the Verizon network, where as Boost uses the T-Mobile Network. I just don't have very much faith in Boost, or T-Mobile when it comes to cell phone service.

I prefer dealing with AT&T or Verizon as the underlying carrier.

I currently have one line on my iPhone with AT&T and another with Consumer Cellular. Customer service from both carriers has been great! I like consumer cellular because they have US based customer service.

AT&T I believe has foreign based call centers. I called into AT&T today and the guy started speaking in Spanish, and when I asked him to speak English he had a slight accent. However absolutely no issues what so ever dealing with AT&T.

Before I switched to consumer cellular, I had Xfinity and I absolutely could not stand their customer service and being forced to use their app to do a simple SIM swap.

T-Mobile on the other hand, I tried using twice and both times it ended with a complaint to the state attorney general.

Boost uses their own Dish Wireless network where they have coverage. They primarily have n71, n66 & n70 deployed and are sitting on a lot of mid band and mmWave. If there is no native Dish coverage, it will connect to T-Mobile or AT&T depending on what kind of SIM you have. If you have a rainbow SIM it can connect to either T-Mobile or AT&T.

Yes, Comcast and Charter use Verizon for their mobile service for consumers, but it was just announced a few days ago, it will be T-Mobile that will be the MNO for both cable companies business mobile offerings.

While it is 100% area dependent, in general T-Mobile has the fastest data speeds due to the mass deployment of n41 from the Sprint buyout. Verizon has a ton of c-band, which in theory should provide faster seems but it seems like it is rare to get over 1500 Mbps from that. My experience with having all three is that AT&T is the slowest on mid band. Real world is there a differences between 1700 Mbps on T-Mobile n41, 900 Mbps on Verizon n77 and 700 Mbps on AT&T n77? No, but the more available capacity, the better the service can handle an influx of usage.

When it comes to coverage, in my travels Verizon and AT&T are real close, T-Mobile still has some work to do in rural areas. New T-Mobile rural builds in WNY seem to have 1 Gbps fiber backhaul, as I can never get more than 850 – 900 Mbps off of them. Hopefully that increases over time, if people start to take their home internet service, even with it's lower QCI, I can see speeds being impacted.

 

[EarDemon]

Wait, you're in WNY?? Did we have this conversation before??
And yeah, Boost doesn't have Pixels, which is why I stay on T-Mobile. BTW, I had excellent signal everywhere around Buffalo when I came home in May

Yes, I think it has come up before.

I'm on the very Eastern edge of Erie County, in the Erie/Genesee/Wyoming tri county area.

I try not to spend any money in Erie County to minimize the amount of tax revenue I contribute, so I'm frequently in Warsaw, Batavia, Olean, Jamestown, Bradford, PA, Erie, PA and other places not in Erie County, NY. T-Mobile's coverage has improved in those areas, but it's still lacking compared to the other two. Inbetween Darien Lake and Batavia there are dead zones along both Rt 33, which is odd because not only do you have Six Flags but the Thruway runs parallel. In Attica and Alexander I have coverage issues along and off of Rt 98. I've seen a lot of improvement in Chautauqua, Catt County can be hit and miss espscially if you are not in the vicinity of I86. AT&T is very strong in Catt county, I can get 800 - 900 Mbps on FirstNet and almost nothing on T-Mobile in some area.

When I'm along the Lake Erie shore, I'm frequenytly roaming on the Candian providers. AT&T seems to handle the switching between themselves and Telus better than T-Mobile. It's like if there are problems with the handoff and every tiime it goes from native to Candian and back there is a drop on T-Mobile and with AT&T its seemless.

I can't comment on Buffalo itself or the immidiante outer ring suburbs. I enter city limits once a year for the Trans-Siberian Orchactra concert, and most times I stay east of Transit Rd.

The Boost Store I went to on Friday was on South Park Ave, near the Hamberg Fairgrounds. First Boost store I've ever seen that didn't have bars on the windows.

 

[HipKat]

Yes, I think it has come up before.

I'm on the very Eastern edge of Erie County, in the Erie/Genesee/Wyoming tri county area.

I try not to spend any money in Erie County to minimize the amount of tax revenue I contribute, so I'm frequently in Warsaw, Batavia, Olean, Jamestown, Bradford, PA, Erie, PA and other places not in Erie County, NY. T-Mobile's coverage has improved in those areas, but it's still lacking compared to the other two. Inbetween Darien Lake and Batavia there are dead zones along both Rt 33, which is odd because not only do you have Six Flags but the Thruway runs parallel. In Attica and Alexander I have coverage issues along and off of Rt 98. I've seen a lot of improvement in Chautauqua, Catt County can be hit and miss espscially if you are not in the vicinity of I86. AT&T is very strong in Catt county, I can get 800 - 900 Mbps on FirstNet and almost nothing on T-Mobile in some area.

When I'm along the Lake Erie shore, I'm frequenytly roaming on the Candian providers. AT&T seems to handle the switching between themselves and Telus better than T-Mobile. It's like if there are problems with the handoff and every tiime it goes from native to Candian and back there is a drop on T-Mobile and with AT&T its seemless.

I can't comment on Buffalo itself or the immidiante outer ring suburbs. I enter city limits once a year for the Trans-Siberian Orchactra concert, and most times I stay east of Transit Rd.

The Boost Store I went to on Friday was on South Park Ave, near the Hamberg Fairgrounds. First Boost store I've ever seen that didn't have bars on the windows.

Not to change the subject but my GF and I are seriously talking about moving back (after 20 years) after I retire in the next year or 2. I've been looking in the Farmington to Canandaigua area at house prices. They're not bad, No way we could afford to move right back into Buffalo or the suburbs.

When we were home in May, I noticed how often we switched to Canadian towers even though we were on the NY side still