Dish Network (DISH.O) said on Wednesday its unit Boost Infinite had partnered with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell postpaid wireless plans through the e-commerce platform in the United States.

The Boost Infinite Unlimited SIM kit will be available to Amazon Prime subscribers at $25 a month for unlimited talk, text and data services. Dish and Amazon did not disclose their financial arrangement.

  • @adj16
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    1 year ago

    That’s…already the price for Boost Infinite, without any tie to Amazon membership. Ask me how I know.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Yep clearly shows $25 on their website, weird. Probably a price hike coming if I had to guess.

      Is boost any good? I’m on mint mobile paying $25 per month for 5GB of data. If I could get unlimited with boost, seems like a good move.

      • @pterencephalon
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        21 year ago

        I get cheaper on Mint because I get the 6 or 12 month price, but it means you have to have the money up front to pay for it.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Ah yeah it def helps to pay for a lot of time up front on mint. I’m just a little leery about being locked in for a whole year but would be good to save more.

          • @pterencephalon
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            21 year ago

            Yeah, I did ak3 month first, then 6 month, then 12 month. If you do a family plan, I think you can also get the cheaper price with a shorter lock-in.

      • @adj16
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        21 year ago

        I left after 2 months. Their network has the same coverage as ATT & T-Mobile combined, which is awesome…
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        Their use of those towers is deprioritized. Which means all their requests get sent to the bottom of the queue. If there aren’t a lot of people around, no problem! If you live in a metro area, you wait so long to connect that it’s basically like you don’t have service. It worked great on road trips but was unusable for 90% of my use case.

        I think a lot of the providers with discount prices do the same. A cursory internet search tells me Mint does too, but that they only use T-Mobile’s towers. So if you switch, your coverage might be better but your data connection times might be worse. Or maybe ATT just sees heavy use in my area, and you’d be fine.

        I’m in Atlanta, fwiw. Not exactly inside midtown/downtown, but within the perimeter of 285, so still fairly close to city center.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    No way do i trust dish to offer good service. I will stick with my T-Mobile Connect $15/mo plan thanks.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      11 year ago

      Boost Mobile is in a competition with Cricket to be the worst possible option for cell phone service.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I know nothing about cricket since it runs on AT&T and AT&T hate almost any device that is unlocked. They make it nearly impossible to use an unlocked OEM device on their network. Verizon and T-Mobile are pretty good about letting you use whatever you want.

        • Freeman
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          I mean…i Just moved from Ting/Verizon to Crickett. It works fine. The primary line is a verizon line but the device is unlocked after 60 days per Verizons Policy.

          The biggest annoyance with Crickett/ATT is

          1. ATT Passport Wifi cant be disabled permanently and is annoying

          2. Crickett constantly sends spammy SMS messages to me.

          I may just move to ATT pay as you go for a bit more. Have dual sim verizon is borderline pointless from a data perspective. And t-mo has shit coverage where i need it.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            What device? i know AT&T maintains a very strict whitelist and if you are not using Samsung, Pixel, or a device they sell your device is unlikely to be in the whitelist.

            • Freeman
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              11 year ago

              Oh it’s an iPhone for sure.

              But I also had a google pixel 4a with CalyxOS on it from time to time.

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                Ah, see both of those are whitelisted. Try anything from Motorola or OnePlus and you will quickly find your phone unusable even if it supports the correct radio bands.

          • SokathHisEyesOpen
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            11 year ago

            Cricket also tries to charge you a bunch of fees to pay your fees. They’re predatory towards poor people.

            • Freeman
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              I don’t understand? They have flat rates. But will take 5 bucks off if you do autopay.

              I did notice they charged my card even though I had a negative balance (aka a credit). Which is odd.

              That said their onboarding process is ridiculous and confusing. Even for me. And they try real hard to charge you 9 dollars for an esim.

              But the fees are included in my monthly service charge.

              • SokathHisEyesOpen
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                11 year ago

                It has been years since I tried Cricket, but back then they wanted to charge $5 to pay your bill unless you did it a very particular way. I think it was either pay by check or enroll in auto pay. Plus they had fees for a bunch of other stuff. They charged me $5 on my bill once because I went to the store to ask questions about my bill. Maybe they’re better now, but I would never try again to find out. Plus the actual service was awful. There were dead spots all over my city.

                • Freeman
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                  11 year ago

                  Yeah dont get me wrong. Theres a reason i moved to crickett but havent moved the rest of my family yet, though most of the savings come with multiple accounts.

                  Like I said i dont like their onboarding process, having to use a burner account/number to get started, then setup an actual account. I also dont really trust their security, specifically with porting and IMEI etc.

                  That said, their billing is pretty straight forward. Its x dollars a month (60 for my plan) and if you do autopay they will credit 5 bucks. Like I said though, i had a -65 dollar balance, so unsure why i was even charged, i had a credit. And their support is total dogshit. LIke call at noon on a tuesday and still wait 45 minutes through 4 queues to talk to someone that just wants you off the line.

                  But their billing is pretty straightforward.