New York’s Attorney General, Barbara Underwood, is digging into the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile with an eye toward the impact on prepaid services, The Wall Street Journal reports. (entire WSJ article is HERE – subscription required.) Together, the two companies have about 30M prepaid customers. The office of AG Barbara Underwood has sent questions about pricing and customers to companies that Read more…
Last week, Peter Adderton – founder and former CEO of Boost Mobile USA, issued a press release reaffirming his position on the potential harm the Sprint/T-Mobile merger could cause – especially as it relates to the independent wireless dealers. As the national association for these dealers, we fully support his position. Not only will this potential merger Read more…
Come meet NWIDA on Wednesday (Aug 22) right before the show floor opens! Get your questions answered about the industry’s only independent dealer association and meet our board of directors – and special guest Peter Adderton. (And we’ll bring breakfast!) It’s free to attend, but you must RSVP: Powered by Eventbrite NWIDA members, contact us today if you need Read more…
Peter Adderton issued a new Press Release today. In part Adderton states that on June 18, Sprint and T-Mobile submitted a nearly 700-page filing to the FCC, pressing their case for the merger’s approval. The filing did not include a single mention of the New T-Mobile’s plans to protect the interests of the 30+ million prepaid customers Read more…
UPDATED: Yesterday’s news that Verizon has extended the CDMA deadline for MVNOs ONLY does not apply to Verizon pre and postpaid directly. NWIDA has confirmed the following information regarding Verizon prepaid and postpaid: In addition to yesterday’s news that Verizon has extended the CDMA deadline for MVNOs ONLY – NWIDA has confirmed by Verizon the following information regarding Read more…
News regarding Verizon 3G activations. NWIDA has confirmed independent by three different Verizon MVNOs, the 3G CDMA phone activation cutoff has been pushed back from June 30, 2018 (end of this month) to the end of this year. (December 31, 2018). Expo Mobile sent a dealer email. Two other MVNO reps confirmed. As for regular Verizon postpaid and Read more…
Recently, Adam Wolf (NWIDA President) was interviewed and quoted in an article for Event-Driven.com. Event Driven, a Reorg Research product, offers real-time news and analysis on the most important mergers, acquisitions and special situations for investors, traders and lawyers. Although the DOJ often views comments from competitors with some skepticism, the arguments from the likes of Adderton and the National Wireless Read more…
NWIDA is working with Peter Adderton in his efforts to get a conclusive answer and result regarding the fate of Boost, Virgin and Metro if the Sprint/T-Mobile merger goes through. Today, Peter Adderton announced he has retained the services of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP to represent his concerns regarding the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile. Read more…
The following press release went out this morning: You can read/download the entire press release HERE. LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2018 — Adam Wolf, President of the National Wireless Independent Dealer Association (NWIDA) joins Peter Adderton, founder and former CEO of Boost Mobile USA, today in jointly expressing their concerns with the proposed merger of Sprint and Read more…
There is a lot of news about the T-Mobile/Sprint merger – and, there are quite a few people watching the news about it. One in particular is Peter Adderton. Peter founded Boost Mobile and sold it to Sprint – and he still runs Boost Australia. Peter is pushing hard for T-Mobile and Sprint to announce now what their plans for Boost, Read more…