Verizon Value – the division that encompasses all the prepaid brands (including the old Tracfone) brands has made changes in their upper management. Nancy Clark – President of the division announced on LinkedIn the new team: David Kim – formerly of Boost – is now Chief Revenue Officer Ken Lain is now SVP, Customer Operations & Experience, Read more…
NWIDA has learned that EVP of Retail Wireless – Stephen Stokols, is leaving Dish Network. The report is he is leaving “to persue a new entrepeneurial venture. Stokols joined Dish in July of 2020 and led the Boost efforts when Dish acquired the brand after the Sprint/T-Mobile merger. His last day will be May 5 — Read more…
According to an article in Light Reading (link below) T-Mobile has decided to turn off its 2G GSM network on April 2, 2024. “Across the industry, wireless companies have retired older network technologies as part of an important progression to ensure all customers can enjoy a more advanced 4G and 5G network,” T-Mobile explained on its website. Read more…
T-Mobile has turned over the rest of the cards. In a corporate post (link below), they claim they’re “… Reshaping Retail in a Digital‑First World” T-Mobile retail will look vastly different very soon: After asking Is brick-and-mortar retail dead? – they answered: Yes, the way we’ve known it is dead. T-Mobile is changing their distribution to the following: Read more…
**Updated 5:22pm**Seeing on social media that ALL Metro by T-Mobile Corporate stores are closing too. **Updated 4:56pm**This is apparently part of a large restructuring at T-Mobile – and there is more to come. Territory Managers are being asked (if they want) to apply for their old jobs (which will have a new title.) **Updated 4:03pm**We’re heard confirmation Read more…
In a complaint filed with the US International Trade Commission, as well as letters filed to the FTC, Samsung is looking to ban all aftermarket displays claiming: … Complainant seeks a general exclusion order barring importation of certain active matrix organic light-emitting diode display panels and modules that are used as replacement displays, and components thereof, that Read more…
In the latest prepaid report by Wave7 Research suggests Republic Wireless will soon end operations. Multiple sources confirmed to Wave7 that closure is likely, although there is no clear time frame. In November, Republic shut down its online community forums. Their social media accounts also went primarily dark last year. In 2022, there was only one post Read more…
NWIDA has learned – and has heard from multiple dealers – that T-Mobile is ending their “TPRS” (T-Mobile Preferred Retailer – Subdealer) program and will close hundreds of dealer-owned stores within the first quarter of 2023. NWIDA has been told by a Master Agent that it’s T-Mobile ending the program, not anyone Master Agent. Many of these Read more…
A report in LightReading today (link below) states that Dish (who’s Chairman is Charlie Ergen) is in “early discussions” to sell Boost to a new company, called CONX which is owned by Charlie Ergen. CONX is a SPAC or “Special Purpose Acquisition Company” – a company created to assist other companies to go public quickly and easily. Read more…
Well, we called it. We knew that when Verizon bought Tracfone, they wouldn’t hold on to all the different brands. And today, they’ve announced the “beginning of the end” for a few. Thanks to a social media post from Tyler Childress (see below), we find Verizon has announced the end of Page Plus, Net10 and GoSmart. Effective Read more…
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