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?

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…