Dish has (finally!!!) taken control of Boost and started its journey to become the 4th largest wireless carrier in the US. “Today, we are proud to welcome hundreds of employees, thousands of independent retailers, and millions of customers to the DISH family,” said Erik Carlson, president and CEO, DISH. “This marks an important milestone in DISH’s evolution as Read more…

According to an article on TMoNews (link below) T-Mobile sent a letter to the CPUC asking it to relax three of the conditions tied to its merger approval, including the requirement that T-Mo provide 5G speeds of at least 300Mbps to 93 percent of California’s population by the end of 2024. T-Mobile wants that pushed back to 2026. T-Mobile Read more…

According to an article on Prepaid Phone News (link below) – Dish may be looking for some help to build it’s network, and they may be talking to Apple (??!!) The article says: Now, it looks like Dish needs to look for a willing partner with enough resources to help it establish a standalone 5G network. There Read more…

Bloomberg is reporting (link below) that Dish will close on Boost by July 1, Dish reported this in a regulatory filing, without providing terms. Dish is expected to pay about $1.4 billion for Boost. The acquisition, which includes seven years of access to T-Mobile’s network, was coordinated by DoJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim in order to help Read more…

According to an article on Mobile World Live (link below) T-Mobile doubled down on their promise to add 5,000 new jobs by May 2021 – just as it began laying off more employees. T-Mobile confirmed jobs were going, arguing in a statement the move was “essential” for it to “remain a fast-moving and competitive growth company” and would Read more…

T-Mobile is pulling out of “Sprint”‘s National Retail locations and firing that staff. As far as National Retail, T-Mobile will only be in Costco – for now. The question that remains is will T-Mobile, under their brand, take over the space Sprint had in places like Best Buy, Sams Club and Walmart, or will they eliminate those Read more…

Sprint customers have begun receiving text messages that they can now roam on the T-Mobile network. This is the first step in decommissioning the Sprint CDMA network – which will take quite a while to complete. Sprint dealers have already received a memo stating June 15 as the beginning of “Phase II” – giving approximately 1 million Read more…

According to a report on FierceWireless (link below), Boost Mobile stores are reporting shortages of phone inventory. As part of the government’s conditional approval of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, Dish is supposed to buy Boost for $1.4 billion. It was widely expected to close by June 1, but technically, it has 90 days since the April 1 filing Read more…

Reports are that the “done” “well, almost done” deal is “not done at all?” Apparently, T-Mobile is getting a bit tired of Charlie Ergen and DIsh and may be looking for someone else (*cough Peter Adderton?? *cough*) to purchase Boost. According to the article (link below): Ergen, one of corporate America’s toughest negotiators, may force T-Mobile to Read more…