This one is not specific to former RW members, however, according to a post on Howard Forums another Boost migration is underway:
I believe the poster is a Boost dealer.
If your former plan with RW was Republic 5.0, you already have an AT&T SIM and should not be impacted.
If, however, your plan with RW before migration to Boost was My Choice, this may impact you.
DISH/Boost, apparently, wants to minimize use of T-Mobile’s network and would prefer Boost subscribers use either its native network (no phones once used with RW are compatible with Boost’s native network) or AT&T’s network.
Any new SIM would be either a “rainbow” (native network) SIM or an AT&T network SIM. Once upon a time, Boost would issue native network SIMs only if one’s phone was network native compatible. Now, (it seems) in some cases, native network SIMs are issued even when the phone is incompatible with the native network. In those instances, the native network SIM would roam to AT&T or T-Mobile with AT&T preferred.
Should anyone be impacted negatively by this migration, let us know. Depending upon which new SIM (if any) you get, it may be possible to force T-Mobile coverage (if you have an Android phone).
Thanks for the heads-up. While this is of academic interest to me, I have a friend who went from RW to Dish to Boost and is on the T-Mobile network. I will alert him to this. He’s seen me run tests in the late afternoons when Boost on AT&T data performance drops to minutes per bit. I suspect that this will convince him to go elsewhere.
Probably not related? But I’m one who’s on the T-Mobile network and today I’ve noticed that I keep losing signal. I have to switch to airplane mode and back to get it to reconnect properly. Unrelated, right??
89012 is still T-Mobile, so not related. T-Mobile is aggressively upgrading its 5G network (sometimes degrading 4G in the process) in many areas. If your phone is 4G only or doesn’t support all of T-Mobile’s 5G bands that may be the issue.