{"id":52422,"date":"2026-06-26T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52422"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:23:44","slug":"boom-mobile-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/26\/boom-mobile-restructuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom Mobile Restructuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our phones stopped working this morning, or perhaps last night, but everything looked fine on <a href=\"https:\/\/boommobile.com\">Boom&rsquo;s Web site<\/a>. I contacted their support, and as always they got back right away, but this time with bad news:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>I&rsquo;m deeply sorry to share that after careful consideration, we&rsquo;ve made the very difficult decision to restructure through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. If this isn't successful, then we will discontinue Boom! Mobile service. I know this is upsetting, and I want to personally thank you for trusting us. We&rsquo;re committed to making your transition to another provider if you choose to do so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>So now I&rsquo;m looking for another Verizon MVNO. The options and pricing seem to have changed a lot since the last time I was picking a plan. Some possibilities: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmobile.com\">US Mobile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible.com\">Visible<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redpocket.com\">RedPocket<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tello.com\">Tello<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boostmobile.com\">Boost Mobile<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalwireless.com\">Total Wireless<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NoContract\/comments\/1ufopam\/boom_to_attempt_restructuring_through_chapter_11\/\">Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our phones stopped working this morning, or perhaps last night, but everything looked fine on Boom&rsquo;s Web site. I contacted their support, and as always they got back right away, but this time with bad news: I&rsquo;m deeply sorry to share that after careful consideration, we&rsquo;ve made the very difficult decision to restructure through Chapter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-06-26T17:23:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"108c88fe-199b-4231-90fb-66561a472323","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-06-26T17:23:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEIyI_hmbQjGQ-2ZWGkcjIw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1694,101,132,1451,86],"class_list":["post-52422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-boom-mobile","tag-business","tag-carrier","tag-sunset","tag-verizon"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52423,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52422\/revisions\/52423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}