T-Mobile is introducing a brand new pay as you go promotion with incentives for patrons on different pay as you go MVNOs to modify to Metro by T-Mobile, together with waiving switching charges, a reduction on a limiteless plan with 5G, and a trade-in provide for a brand new 5G cellphone. In different phrases, it’s doing precisely what it advised regulators it wouldn’t do when it acquired Sprint a 12 months in the past.

The US wi-fi market is awful with 5G cellphone trade-in provides and 5G plan upgrades today, however this one stands out in its direct pitch to lure Boost Mobile prospects to T-Mobile’s pay as you go model — the identical prospects it was ordered to promote to Dish community with the intention of setting the corporate up as a fourth wi-fi service to exchange Sprint. It’s additionally what Dish warned is perhaps coming in a plea to the Federal Communications Commission earlier this 12 months.

The promotion additionally seems to particularly attraction to Boost prospects on Sprint’s previous CDMA community — a community T-Mobile owns and operates and introduced it will be shutting down on an unusually aggressive timeline. This leaves many Boost prospects in want of a tool improve by January 1st, 2022, which T-Mobile is fortunately providing to facilitate in the event that they change to Metro:

“Get half off your unlimited line when you switch from Boost or Cricket by bringing your phone number to Metro by T-Mobile and trading in ANY working device for a limited time. Yes, any — even that old flip phone!”

The deal supplies prospects who change and commerce in a cellphone with a two-year discounted $25-per-month value on a limiteless plan with 5G.

T-Mobile’s observe report of maintaining its Sprint merger guarantees is shaky at greatest. It has did not create jobs it stated it will, and whereas it has technically fulfilled its necessities to Dish Network, like promoting Boost and offering wholesale community service, it hasn’t precisely been useful both. This new promotion is maybe its most blatant play but to win again Boost prospects — the very prospects Dish might want to retain if it’s going to changing into a full-fledged service.