Sign Up for Boost Infinite's 5G Service Using Your Amazon Prime Membership

pcmag.com:

Customers bullish on Boost Infinite, a built-from-scratch 5G service that its parent Dish Wireless says will rival the three national carriers, now have an easier way to sign up. Amazon Prime members can use their subscription to prequalify for Boost’s $25/month plan at a new storefront(Opens in a new window).

Dish announced this on Wednesday(Opens in a new window), giving customers an online option beyond its own site—where just checking to see if Boost Infinite offers service still requires submitting not just a street address but your name and the last four digits of your Social Security number. 

(Dish suffered a severe ransomware attack last winter, so a reluctance to cough up personally identifiable information just to see if you can sign up seems understandable to us.)

Boost’s new deal has Amazon Prime subscribers pre-qualified, so they only need to order a Boost Infinite SIM—usually $25, discounted to $20 here—and activate service on the carrier’s $25/month Boost Infinite Unlimited. 

That offering, which Boost says includes a lifetime guarantee of that $25 rate for Amazon Prime members, brings unlimited-on-phone data subject to two limits: Exceeding 30GB of cellular data in a month may subject you to “lower speeds” (the fine print doesn’t say how slow, but a Dish publicist said they are “3G speeds”), and hotspot usage isn’t included.

You can add up to 30GB of hotspot data for $10 a month(Opens in a new window) and raise the full-speed data limit to 40GB for another $10 a month. 

Boost also offers a $50 Infinite Unlimited+ plan with the same soft cap of 30GB that adds voice, text, and 5GB of high-speed data roaming in Canada and Mexico as well as free outbound calls and texts to a subset of international