Lifeline is a government subsidy program that subsidizes phone and broadband service for families that qualify. The government pays the provider approximately $9.25 a month per user. TracFone currently has roughly 1.7 million Lifeline customers and, as we know, could soon be part of Verizon – pending government approvals. And, while Verizon has said it will continue Read more…
Back in August, 2019, Asurion insurance purchased the UBreakIFix franchise. Now it seems their doing some rebranding. For the first time, the Asurion name is appearing on the UBIF store fronts. This was image was posted by Daniel Hiatt (H/T to Tyler D. Childress) : As we know from the Metro-by-TMobile name change, “Hard” signs are expensive Read more…
According to Fierce Wireless (link below), Verizon is making changes in its corporate-owned store strategy. Several corporate owned stores are closing permanently and related employees are being let go. The changes are occurring nationwide. Through the course of re-examining the retail side of its business, Verizon gave some employees the option of applying for other roles within Read more…
According to Fierce Wireless (link below), the Attorneys General from 16 states and Washington, DC have sent a letter to the FCC urging the agency to request additional information from Verizon about its planned TracFone* acquisition. TracFone is one of the largest providers of Lifeline, while Verizon curently only offers its services to Lifeline customers in parts Read more…
Back in August, we reported that T-Mobile US would purchase the wireless assets from Shentel. Back then the cost wasn’t known but today we find out that the new monolith has agreed to pay $1.95 billion for the mobile assets from the former Sprint partner. Shentel and T-Mobile had been “discussing” the value over for the assets. Read more…
Big Blue had a pretty decent quarter to close out 2020. AT&T Mobility added 1.2 million postpaid and 14 thousand prepaid connections. That’s quite an improvement over Q4 ‘ 19 when they added only 135,000 postpaid and 8,000 prepaid. The company now reports 183 million wireless connections, including 77 million postpaid, 18 million prepaid, 6.5 million reseller Read more…
While in postpaid. Verizon’s Q4/2020 added 279,000 net customers – it wasn’t that way in Prepaid. Verizon lost 50,000 prepaid subscribers after showing positive numbers in Q2 and Q3. However, we think they’ll be OK on the prepaid side this year, most likely gaining a few million overall. — NWIDA members, contact us today if you Read more…
No. No they’re not. A rumor is floating around with the message (see below) that LG will be exiting the smartphone business on January 26. However, AndroidPolice reached out to LG’s global communicator for consumer tech, Ken Hong, to hear if there was anything to the supposed leak. His response was swift and specific: Completely false and without Read more…
We’re hearing that Metro by T-Mobile stores may soon be allowed to sell unlocked phones, obtained from (almost?) any source. The information comes from a Metro dealer, who has been a reliable source in the past. Dealers would be allowed to purchase unlocked phones and activate them on Metro. We don’t have an exact start date for Read more…
When Verizon announced the expected merger with Tracfone, it was presumed that Verizon would not continue to run the 8 or so brands that Tracfone owns. Well, the consolidation has begun. According to the telcel home page, Telcel customers will “soon be part of the Simple Mobile family” Telcel America was established in 2012 and carved a niche for Read more…
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