News & notes

news

Guess Who’s Coming Back? (hint – it’s RADIO SHACK)

Two entrepreneurs who have been collecting fallen retail brands during the coronavirus pandemic are taking over the reins of RadioShack, acquiring the nearly century-old…

Read more

Has Dish Already Pushed The Timeline?

Dish Network had promised it would have its 5G network up by the end of 2020, but now? “We are not commenting on that,”…

Read more

Consumer Cellular SOLD

While we’ve heard rumors on the street previously, we couldn’t really confirm it. But today it’s official! Consumer Cellular has been sold to a…

Read more

Is T-Mobile Getting Ready to Close 1000+ Metro Stores?

Sure seems like it. T-Mobile has made massive changes in the compensation structure to Metro by T-Mobile dealers. Despite vocal opposition, directly to senior…

Read more

Sprint MVNO Conversion Timeline

Tello Mobile, a Sprint network MVNO, has released their “conversion” timeline – a necessity as T-Mobile begins the shut-down of the CDMA network. Tello…

Read more

Updated NWIDA Statement on Metro by T-Mobile Dealers

NWIDA has been in contact with the Federal Trade Commission, the US Department of Justice and with Washington, DC lawyers – well known and…

Read more

Metro Stores Refusing To Take Payments

Starting today, October 1, 2020, T-Mobile has made a number of changes to the compensation that the dealers receive. One of those changes is…

Read more

Dish Names new Boost Mobile Boss

DISH taps wireless innovator and FreedomPop founder Stephen Stokols to lead Boost Mobile DIsh announced today that Stephen Stokols will join its executive leadership…

Read more

Softbank Selling Brightstar

SoftBank has announced plans to sell Brightstar for an undisclosed sum, as the company continues to divest of its telecoms properties. SoftBank said Brightstar…

Read more

Helping Metro Dealers

Today, NWIDA released the following announcement. The PDF version can be found below: Helping Metro by T-Mobile Dealers The Trade & Advocacy Group is…

Read more