While Boss Revolution has long been in the prepaid telecom business, selling international calling cards – they’ve now become a full fledged MVNO, on the Sprint network – Boss Revolution Mobile. Offering 4 plans, and starting at $20/month, all the plans offer unlimited talk, text, and data with mobile hotspot. There is a high-speed 4G LTE data Read more…
Yesterday, we reported that Sprint had announced they’ve killed off the Virgin Mobile brand, and will be moving all those customers to Boost. Today we learned that the Virgin Group will be taking the Virgin Mobile brand back. Virgin is still deciding whether they will relaunch the brand in the US under a new identity. A representative Read more…
According to a text message (see below) Virgin Mobile, currently owned by Sprint in the US market, is shutting down and all customers will be automatically transferred to Boost. NWIDA received a copy of the message late last night and was able to forward it to Peter Adderton and Wave 7 Research, both who tweeted about it. Read more…
MVNO Mobile Nation, based in Tennessee, has posted that effective January 7, 2020 they will be “transitioning away from its facilities-based network that provides wireless network services” and that “Your MobileNation service will stop at 12:01 am on January 7, 2020.” No reason is given. The article has instructions on how to port out. Read the Read more…
Happy Holidays from Buster! Starting today. NWIDA has implemented new (AND LOWER) pricing for 2020! Retail membership has dropped, on average, by 30%. Now it’s even more compelling to join! Even more than ever, NWIDA membership pays for itself! Purchase 2 devices (you save $15 on each one!) from The Mobility Marketplace and your membership is zero Read more…
According to a post on HowardForums (link below) Freeup Mobile has removed their free 250 Talk or Text plan. Link to post — NWIDA members, contact us today if you need our assistance and if you’re not yet a member, we invite you to join today. Want news like this delivered to your inbox? Click HERE Want Read more…
Visible, the (are they/aren’t they) Verizon-owned MVNO has sent out an email to its customers notifying them of an urgent issue with Google Pixel phones: “Hi Mr So and So… – urgent update: If your Pixel prompts you to install an Android 10 security patch, don’t. The patch will sever your connection to the Visible network. We realize Read more…
NWIDA is pleased to announce our 23rd Vendor Partner (VP) – The Mobility Marketplace. Vendor Partners are companies who have graciously agreed to provide discounts or “something more” to our Retail Members. NWIDA members will save between $15-$20 on EACH DEVICE purchased including handsets, phones, MiFis and more. The Mobility Marketplace saves 30-50% over new pricing and Read more…
T-Mobile made 4 big “UnCarrier” annoucements today: Nationwide 5G will launch December 6 T-Mobile Heroes Initiative: a 10 year commitment to free 5G access with unlimited talk, text and data for EVERY first responder in the USA Free service and hotspots to 10 million households around the US, designed to close the digital gap at schools T-Mobile Connect – $15/month prepaid service. Read more…
Peter Adderton, founder of Boost Mobile, Peter thinks Dish will be looking to cut costs and could jettison as many as 2.5 million prepaid customers. Apparently, these would be wireless consumers that Dish doesn’t believe it could make any money on. Adderton believes Dish will need to cut costs so that it can pay for the build-out Read more…
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