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The same communications company that turns on and off the phone for an entire nation at war to buddy up to oligarchs ?
I think I'll pass on that one.
If the ONLY option for phone service was through anything Elon touched I would rather go back to two cans attached by a string.
Oh, good! A network as shitty as Trump phones themselves; like a match made in heaven. I can practically feel the heavy breathing of whomever is listening in collecting my data!
Look, I’m still hip and with it. We’re bringing back the chirp with X-mobile.
Great. What's the best alternative? Boost has been a pretty damn good pre-paid option for me where I live and even when traveling into Canada. Can't beat the cheap price. But as soon as Elon gets involved with Boost in any way I'm fucking out. I want nothing to do with that cocksucker.
I looked at U.S. Mobile, but that seems way too complicated, having to manage which carrier you're piggybacking off of yourself - who has time for that? Not to mention the cheesy names they have for the 3 carriers who's networks they utilize (dark star, warp and lightspeed).
Is StraighTalk really the only other option for cheap $25 prepaid with good network coverage?
Mint Mobile isn't prepaid, but it's inexpensive
Boost has no native network, they’re an MNVO wholly on AT&T’s pipe. They sold all their spectrum to AT&T in 2025 after they failed miserably, and possibly on purpose, to build out the promised network capability.
I remember thinking at the time they bid and won just to hope to be bought out by T-mobile or Verizon…
Musk has a pattern of building things that look real but actually do nothing. Flying cars, underground high speed rail, autonomous robots...