I see #BoostMobile hasn't given up it's highly offensive, gerontophobic commercial.
We'll, they've picked the side against #Seniors.
#Ageism is ugly & hateful.
#Seniors should return the favor & #Boycott Boost.
As in NOW!
#BoostMobile
Boost Mobile Rolls Out Holiday Savings on 5G Phones, Plans & More
Weekly output: AT&T 5G, Meta breakup bid blocked, Mozilla Foundation, social-media usage, Starship and New Glenn
I spent much of the only week in November not disrupted by my own travel schedule catching up on things from the previous two weeks. As you can see from the list below, that was an incomplete exercise.
(Speaking of previous weeks, I also wrote a post for Patreon supporters recapping my experience at Web Summit in Lisbon.)
11/17/2025: AT&T Boosts 5G Speed and Capacity With EchoStar Spectrum, PCMag
Having written in September about Boost Mobile’s plans to sell this spectrum to AT&T, I felt obliged to cover AT&T putting those frequencies into service sooner than I would have imagined possible.
11/19/2025: Court Rejects FTC’s Bid to Break Up Meta, Finds It’s Not a Social Media Monopoly, PCMag
I didn’t span on spending a large chunk of Tuesday afternoon reading a judge’s opinion about the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to order Meta to undo its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. I also didn’t expect to find the judge’s analysis of Facebook so relatable.
11/20/2025: With Its Next Big Thing, Mozilla Wants to Do More Than Improve the Web, PCMag
The interview at the center of this post happened two weeks earlier, so I appreciated the Mozilla Foundation providing some details about early proposals received since then for its AI-for-democracy funding program.
11/20/2025: Among Social Media Users, Reddit Soars As X Stagnates, PCMag
Thursday had no work items on my calendar, so I could cover this new report from the Pew Research Center about which social platforms have earned time on the schedules of Americans.
11/21/2025: SpaceX’s Starship Suffers Major Test Mishap a Day After Blue Origin Unveils Rocket Upgrade Plans, PCMag
I was going to spent Friday writing a post about an information-security conference I attended Tuesday, but then SpaceX had the booster stage of its Starship rocket fail catastrophically in a ground test a day after that company’s increasingly-capable rival Blue Origin outlined some ambitious upgrades to its own New Glenn launch vehicle.
#att5g #blueOrigin #blueskyUsage #boostMobile #facebookInstagram #ftcVMeta #metaBreakup #mozillaFoundation #newGlenn #pewResearchCenter #socialMedia #spacexStarship #starship
Nationwide Boost Mobile Outage Sparks Widespread Frustration, Here is What is Happening
#boostmobile: get a clue.
The very population you humiliate in your newest ad campaign - retired #Seniors - is the very population most likely to be interested in your El Cheapo mobile phone svc.
You should take that disgusting ad campaign down immediately & hope to stem the damage.
But why anyone would ever subscribe now that you've revealed your xtrmly offensive ethos is beyond me.
Boost Mobile On The Job commercial
#BoostMobile #abancommercials #commercial Video Boost Mobile On The Job commercial, actor, actress, girl, cast, song
https://abancommercials.com/boost-mobile/on-job-commercial/282210/
Weekly output: Google Translate, Boost Mobile, Starship test flight, T-Mobile’s SuperMobile, FTC eyes Gmail spam filtering
I’m off to Berlin Monday night to cover the IFA tech trade show–but this time, I’m paying my own way. I think I’ve structured my travel expenses and freelance pitches to assure that I make a profit from the coming week.
In addition to what you see below, I wrote a bonus post for Patreon readers Sunday sharing travel tips from my first ride on Amtrak’s NextGen Acela train.
8/26/2025: Google Translate Enlists AI for Live Translation and Language Lessons, PCMag
I may get a chance to try out this feature in the field while I’m in Germany–except that so many locals speak English there.
8/26/2025: Boost Mobile Sells Off Spectrum to AT&T, Ends Its Fourth-Carrier Ambitions, PCMag
This was not on my list of possible stories at the start of the week, but the early coverage of this wireless-industry plot twist made it clear that I had to write up this news.
8/27/2025: On Tenth Test Flight, SpaceX’s Starship Hits Its Marks, PCMag
After two days of having the launch waved off, Tuesday saw the elements line up for SpaceX’s newest test flight of its giant Starship rocket.
8/28/2025: T-Mobile Unwraps ‘SuperMobile,’ a Network-Sliced Business Plan, PCMag
If T-Mobile had announced its new rate plans for business customers on the day it revealed this new option for business customers, this would have been a shorter post.
8/30/2025: FTC Chairman Suggests Gmail Spam Filtering Has It In for GOP Candidates, PCMag
I have to admit to missing this when FTC chair Andrew Ferguson posted this letter Thursday, but after seeing nobody else at PCMag jump on this idea by Friday, I decided to pick it up myself.
#5G #Berlin #BoostMobile #electronics #FTC #Germany #GmailSpamFilters #GoogleTranslate #IFA #SuperMobile #TMobile #tradeShow
The #Trump administration’s plan to create a fourth #wirelesscarrier through #Dish Network’s acquisition of #BoostMobile and spectrum from T-Mobile was doomed to fail. The T-Mobile-Sprint merger, approved in 2020, led to job losses, reduced competition, and higher prices, negating the benefits of the Dish plan. https://www.theverge.com/tech/766795/dish-echostar-wireless-network-trump?eicker.news #tech #media #news
https://www.olnba.com/756876/ リード・シェパードは、ケビン・デュラント＆ロケッツの主要な貢献者になります🔥#NBA #BOOSTMOBILE #ROCKETS ##ヒューストンロケッツ #FoxYoutube #FoxSportsYouTube #fs1 #FS1YouTube #FS1ニックライト #FS1ライトとは #HoustonRockets #キツネ #ケビン・デュラント #ケビン・デュラントはハイライトします #ニックライト #ニックライトポッドキャスト #ヒューストン・ロケッツ #フォックススポーツ #モバイルをブーストします #ライトとは #ライトとは何ですか？ニック・ライトと #ライトポッドキャストは何ですか #リード・シェパード #ロケットのハイライト #最初のことは最初のニック・ライト
Boost Mobile Shower Thoughts - Boost Mobile commercial
#BoostMobile #abancommercials #commercial Video Boost Mobile Shower Thoughts - Boost Mobile commercial, actor, actress, girl, cast, song
https://abancommercials.com/boost-mobile/shower-thoughts-boost-mobile-commercial/275990/
Includes #Cuisinart, #ProctorAndGamble, #BoostMobile, #HersheysChocolates, #ChobaniYogurt, etc that donated to #Project2025
Boost Mobile Double Up commercial
#BoostMobile #abancommercials #commercial Video Boost Mobile Double Up commercial, actor, actress, girl, cast, song
https://abancommercials.com/boost-mobile/double-up-commercial/268330/
Boost Mobile Shower Thoughts commercial
#BoostMobile #abancommercials #commercial Video Boost Mobile Shower Thoughts commercial, actor, actress, girl, cast, song
https://abancommercials.com/boost-mobile/shower-thoughts-commercial/268115/
New Patreon Post (Subscribers only): Telstra’s buying Boost, but what will that mean for mobile prices in 2025?
Quick video time, as I ponder on what Telstra buying Boost Mobile will mean for its customers, as well as the wider Australian telco scene.
Weekly output: Boost Mobile, AI at BT, digital privacy, Elon Musk’s X agenda, Salt Typhoon breaches T-Mobile
I have more than enough practice at traveling to the other side of the Atlantic, but this week’s trip to Lisbon for Web Summit had me sandbagged by jet lag almost every night. It appears that I never got my head into Western European Time, to judge from my not feeling wiped out in a “do not operate heavy machinery” way after I got home Friday night.
11/11/2024: Boost Mobile Touts 5G Network Progress, Adds Sub-$100 5G Phone to Lineup, PCMag
The advance copies of Boost’s PR materials were vague about some key points, but the carrier’s press rep did get back to me to clarify that the $10 billion network-buildout expense shared in them was a total estimate, not a forecast of costs to come.
11/12/2024: Will Gen AI generate value for the corporate landscape?, Web Summit
My first panel at this conference had me interviewing Alex Bell, BT’s digital director of service, and Michael Park, a senior vice president and global head of AI go-to-market at ServiceNow, about how the former company had enlisted the latter to put AI to work in some important IT and customer-service systems.
11/12/2024: Secure swipe: protecting customer data, Web Summit
My second and final panel–fewer than I usually field at this conference–put me on stage with Brittany Kaiser, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower turned Own Your Data advocate, and Marcus Räder, founder and CEO of the lodging-services firm Hostaway, to discuss how companies collect and keep data and how they would be better off not hoarding so much customer information.
11/14/2024: ‘Things Are Different for Elon’: Who Needs X When You Have Political Power?, PCMag
I only wrote up one Web Summit panel for PCMag, but it was a very good one: New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac talking about Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter. They went beyond their recount of that in their book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter to discuss our new oligarch-in-chief’s privileged perch in Donald Trump’s circles.
11/16/2024: Chinese State-Sponsored ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers Also Breached T-Mobile, PCMag
I usually try to avoid writing posts on the weekend, but a) this was news that had gone uncovered at my client and b) I had written less than usual over the rest of the week and c) I have bills coming that aren’t going to pay themselves.
#AI #BoostMobile #BrittanyKaiser #BT #ChineseHackers #ElonMuskTwitter #KateConger #Lisbon #oligarch #RyanMac #SaltTyphoon #TMobile #WebSummit
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/24291655/boost-mobile-5g-dish-wireless
Boost Mobile has almost reached the FCC guidelines to be considered a full MNO (like Verizon or Sprint) rather than an MVNO it's current classification.
The Exact status of this is a little complicated, and has its roots in the T-Mobile/sprint merger. The article covers it in more detail.
Sunday started with Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and is ending with Kamala Harris as the increasingly likely Democratic presidential nominee. I am struck by the selflessness involved in somebody at the apex of political power assessing the circumstances and the stakes and deciding that they require taking himself out of contention–and how well that grace, however grudgingly it may have come, compares to Donald Trump’s incessant self-worship. As Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic: “Biden’s decision reflected a determination to put the fate of his country ahead of his personal vanity, a choice Trump is inherently incapable of making.”
7/15/2024: Automation Lessens Zombie Account Risks, FedTech
I last wrote for this publication in 2017, but I must have left a decent reputation there for an editor to e-mail me in April to ask if I could do a story about how government-IT types can ease staff transitions between administrations.
7/17/2024: Boost Mobile Unwraps New Plans As 5G Network Buildout Chugs Along, PCMag
We had to correct this post because I had missed how Boost’s most expensive plan does not include mobile hotspot use, even though two of its three cheaper options include it. Which is a dumb pricing game for any wireless carrier to play, but especially one that touts “simplified pricing” in its pitch for its new plans.
7/17/2024: On Speed, T-Mobile Is First in Mobile Broadband, AT&T in Home Internet, PCMag
Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest family of apps, offered me an advance on their latest connectivity report. I’m still confused by how they assessed only AT&T’s fiber service next to all of Verizon’s broadband options.
7/18/2024: Google Ships Fourth And (We Hope) Last Android 15 Beta, PCMag
This was the fifth time this year that I’ve written a short post about an incremental step in Android 15’s development cycle for PCMag.
7/19/2024: Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of ‘Single Point of Failure’, PCMag
As I read about the worldwide IT meltdown sparked by CrowdStrike’s epic failure of a driver update, I remembered seeing a CrowdStrike executive declaring at a Washington Post event in early June that “A resilient digital architecture should be able to weather a storm.” Awkward!
Patreon readers got a bonus post related to this story, in which I recounted the continuing utility of keeping notes in a searchable digital format but also revealed that I still have paper notepads from more than 25 years ago–and recently got some unexpected use out of one.
7/19/2024: Ep 103 SmartTechCheck Podcast–CrowdStrike, innovation drought, foldable phones and robotaxis, Mark Vena
I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to talk about a grab-bag of tech topics, one of them being Waymo’s robotaxis as I experienced them in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
#5G #Android15 #ATTFiber #BoostMobile #CrowdStrike #federalIT #MarkVena #Ookla #Speedtest #TMobile #wirelessCarriers #zombieAccounts
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#Telstra #BoostMobile doing the standard customer fuckage.
I try to recover my account.
Page says an email will be sent.
No email arrives.
I wonder why, try alternative address, retry original etc, etc
So eventually I contact Support.
See next Toot for why I never received the promised emails.
#Telstra's #PrepaidMobile subsidiary #BoostMobile tells me my current plan $230/170Gb/365days has been discontinued.
The only reasonable replacement is $300/240GB/365days. No use for the data, using only ~5GB/mth
And today I find that, contrary to what technical support told me, voicemail has not been switched off. So I had multiple messages that I hadn't responded to. :knitting: [guillotine emoji]
I've got some 10 months to find a less-ripoff mobile phone provider.
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