The company was founded in 2015 as Mint SIM, a subsidiary of Ultra Mobile, by David Glickman and Rizwan Kassim.

[2] For Super Bowl LIII in 2019, Mint Mobile aired an ad featuring a fictional advertisement for "chunky style milk", showing a family happily drinking spoiled milk, with the company's anthropomorphic fox mascot comparing it to paying too much for wireless.

But the Super Bowl is a place where I feel like creativity or pushing the envelope is recognized by the audience and you’ve got to do something to really help yourself stand out”.

Part of the ad read “On Sunday, some companies will spend over $5 million to advertise in a game so expensive I can’t even mention its name lest we summon an army of lawyers"[9] In September 2020, the company launched an advertisement featuring the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Paul Revere.

[14] In January 2022, the company launched the "Winnie-the-Screwed" advertising campaign, the first major parody of Winnie-the-Pooh after it entered the public domain.