I've had a family plan account for several years from Sprint, which was acquired by T-Mobile last year. They have been gradually combining operations, and now I am being urged (though not required) to "Upgrade to our bigger + better network at no extra cost" by swapping the SIM cards in my account's phones for new T-Mo SIMs. The online chat agent was predictably useless in answering my questions about why such a switch would be necessary (such "why can't the T-Mo towers simply recognize legacy-Sprint SIMs in addition to recognizing T-Mo SIMs?"). Given cautionary tales such as
Thanks,
Bob Goudreau
Cary, NC