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The answer seems to be "yes", for several reasons: 1) I also once changed my privacy preferences, but have since been opted back in. 2) I wouldn't have even kn
by don-code 6y ago
The answer seems to be "yes", for several reasons:
1) I also once changed my privacy preferences, but have since been opted back in.
2) I wouldn't have even known to check were it not for Hacker News, which is _not_ how I, nor hopefully anyone, would want to be notified of changes to my/their T-Mobile account.
3) I'm greeted with a generic "Update Operation Failed" when I try to opt any of the lines on my account back out, so now I have even less faith that my changes will stick.
- jonplackett 6y agoVote with your $$$. Get a new mobile network.
- hyperbovine 6y agoHard to do when "# of alternative networks" is tending asymptotically to zero.
- jonplackett 6y agoIt's weird/sad how the land of capitalism is trending towards the land of monopolism.
- marshmallow_12 6y agothat is what capitalisim is.
- skynet-9000 6y agothat's what socialism is (well, if they're govt controlled or effectively govt controlled). real capitalism encourages competition, and real entrepreneurs try to discourage it and gain an effective monopoly. that tension is part of the beauty of the whole thing, but when govt approves these mergers with government granted monopolies (i.e., the wireless spectrum), then it all goes to pot very fast.
- magikaram 6y agoUnder "real" capitalism, the general idea is that monopolization would indeed occur sooner, as the oversight that the government would have would lack to exist. The Sprint/T-Mobile merger that was proposed a decade ago was denied by the FTC. The recent merger was allowed by the FTC, thus reducing our number of cellular companies.
- devilduck 6y agonot only is your concept of socialism objectively wrong, but if that is beautiful to you then you also objectively have bad taste
- dragonwriter 6y ago> real capitalism encourages competition If you mean “the real system first described as ‘capitalism’”, no, it doesn’t. If you mean “the abstract, never realized ‘ideal’ system that defenders of capitalism appeal to whenever criticism is levelled at real-world capitalism”, that's harder to assess since the descriptions of that system tend to be both internally inconsistent and incomplete. But nothing usually hear in those encourages competition, usually it's defenders just assert as an article of faith that restriction of competition requires active cooperation of government.
- FeepingCreature 6y agoReal capitalism has never been tried!
- bgorman 6y agoSwitch to Boost mobile, this is an all-new provider.
- dsr_ 6y agoIn the US, Boost is an MVNO reselling T-mobile.
- bgorman 6y agoNo, it is not. Dish Acquired Boost mobile and is building out its own nationwide network.
- ac29 6y agoThis says they are using the T-mobile network: https://about.dish.com/2020-07-01-DISH-enters-retail-wireless-market-with-close-of-Boost-Mobile-advances-build-of-the-nations-first-standalone-5G-network https://about.dish.com/2020-07-01-DISH-enters-retail-wireles...
- bgorman 6y agoAs part of the T-Mobile/Spring merger T-Mobile agreed to give Boost access to its network while Dish builds its own 5G network. This information is everywhere on the internet. https://fortune.com/2021/03/04/dish-5g-mobile-cheapest-service-outfox-att-verizon-t-mobile/ https://fortune.com/2021/03/04/dish-5g-mobile-cheapest-servi... Even the article you posted mentions this in the headline. I have no idea why you feel the need to be so disingenuous.
- Dylan16807 6y agoWho's being disingenuous? You both seem to be basically correct. They're new, they're building out, but currently they resell.