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T-Mobile Defends Job Cuts

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 –…

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T-Mobile leaves “Sprint” National Retail – Fires More Staff

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…

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Sprint begins the T-Mobile Changeover

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…

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Boost Stores Short on Inventory

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…

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Are you kidding me?

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…

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Is Dish is looking for “More”?

The Dish / Boost deal is supposed to close by July 1, but Dish recently sent a memo to Boost employees stating: “T-Mobile has…

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Why Hasn’t Dish Closed on Boost?

According to an article in Fierce Wireless (link below) there are industry analysts that are asking “Why hasn’t Dish closed on Boost yet?” “We…

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Dish and T-Mobile Already Fighting

The Boost deal isn’t “done done” yet and already Dish and T-Mobile aren’t getting along. According to a Lightreading post (link below) and based…

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Well, that was quick

No sooner do we report on one of the last pieces of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger (see here) but now we learn that Softbank (Sprint’s…

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Sprint is Gone on

August 2nd appears to be the day the 38 year old SPRINT brand will disappear. Yes, yellow will become magenta and the “pin drop”…

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