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That is completely false. You can upgrade and it will not interfere with auto migration at all. But it does show well how little the rep knows, so just upgrade in the app or online on the web or by phone. However, you cannot upgrade a broken device under current offers that I am aware of, so you might have to buy a qualifying device cheaply elsewhere to do the upgrade, or wait for a broken-device upgrade offer, or ......

With a plan that does not include Amazon Prime I assume? (Amazon Prime still blocking migration at least until March 1 pending announcements about its replacement).

That's fair.

Other than S22 with the all-bands-enabled fix, right? I applied the fix as per https://s4gru.com/forums/topic/8304-galaxy-s22-thread/?do=findComment&comment=563978 and get SA N25 ok here in Raleigh. (I had to take a second path through it along the GCF path to get SA N25 to actually show). But I have promptly disabled it again because it blocks my using N41, which I get now and is much higher speed.

I think that by "nationwide", they meant that they had reserved the spectrum slice for it to be used nationwide (not just in selected areas), not that they had necessarily deployed signal to it yet.

That seems quite plausible because, in the case of SWAC, for example, they seem to be migrating the two levels into two separate plans, with no obvious way to switch back and forth between them any more. People also seem to have no easy way to add additional SWAC lines after migration, at least not self-serve, according to reports on reddit.

It means that if they ever cancel the discount or you lose it on whatever grounds they may come up with, or maybe add lines that they deem not eligible for the discount, you will be paying a much higher price. I am not saying that is necessarily going to happen, or is their motivation, but I am a bit suspicious.

Oh absolutely - the only way I get a usable signal here in North West Raleigh is by locking to LTE band 41. Otherwise it continually cycles at low speeds between 2, 4, 71 and no signal. Left to its own ways, It also like to try 5G occasionally before dropping it when it gets zero throughput. It's funny but the old Sprint LTE band 41 tower is completely reliable and good speeds even at -130 dBm where as the T-Mobile bands are all flaky even at -107 dBm - maybe it is overlapping signals from multiple towers causing the problems?

It still works on my S22 after upgrade to the final official release. (It also worked during the betas although the settings got reset a couple of times - that might have been my error).

I think they are keeping them at a crawl pace so as to avoid impacting the main T-Mobile churn statistics too much if the migrated users do not like it and leave. It seems, judging from reports, that a lot of Kickstart subscribers have been migrated so far. I figure they reckon Kickstart users are safe because they have such a good deal that they will stay after migration. But it is highly selective even among Kickstart users. That shows to me that it is not a technical obstacle that is keeping them so gradual. It is a policy one of some kind. Another factor could be that some of the three-year commitments given to Federal regulators expire on April 1, 2023.

Exactly ZERO automated migrations have been reported here or on reddit that I have seen, so the reason your account has not been migrated appears to simply be that no accounts at all on any plan have been migrated automatically yet. They used to do manual migrations with a plan change on request but they do not want to do those any more unless you insist. If you want to force them to get it off your account, you can return it after requesting a return kit. Personally I would first give them one more chance to remove it without wasting the shipping by calling "Magic Box Support" at 8444633194. (Best Buys will take them for recycling). Mine still works fine by the way.

Now extended to May 3 according to reports elsewhere. Multiple people confirm that theirs are still working, as is mine

Mine is still working fine here in Raleigh. There were some outages related to the snow storm. I have seen it take a couple of days to recover from storms. It is not among the highest priority services.

Their active user records are probably spotty. By the way, I think that came by USPS postal mail - not that that makes any difference. It actually came a long time ago. Since then, they have extended the Magic Box service in some areas, and not in others. Mine is still working fine. The current expected end date for those still with service is March 1, 2022.

I' would be positive they do not want any of them back as per the below. You could call if in doubt. 1.jpg