I'm confused. I've been a Republic Wireless customer for about a year now, and I've never noticed any pressure to use an open network. My home network is the

I'm confused. I've been a Republic Wireless customer for about a year now, and I've never noticed any pressure to use an open network. My home network is the only wireless network to which my phone will automatically switch. When I'm away from my house, I remain on 3G unless I explicitly choose to connect to another network. It will attempt to reconnect to a network that I've used in the past, but one can stop this by 'forgetting' the network in Android settings. Maybe I have a different phone? I'm using a 3G Moto G. Maybe I turned off something in settings? I have not rooted the phone, but certainly may have changed something from the standard settings menus. Here's someone else agreeing that your Republic Wireless phone should never connect automatically to a new network: https://community.republicwireless.com/thread/26466 https://community.republicwireless.com/thread/26466 I think you were either experiencing a bug that has since been fixed, or you were running some other app that was automatically approving the connections (like Wifi+). I would not discourage anyone from using Republic Wireless due to this worry. At least currently, you are never forced to use any wireless network that you do not want to use.