The DoJ announced that Arkansas has joined Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota in the settlement, which is designed to launch Dish as a fourth nationwide provider of retail mobile wireless services. “We are gratified that Arkansas shares our view of the tremendous benefits to competition that will arise out of the proposed Read more…
Dish has started to build out its wireless executive team, hiring Marc Rouanne and Stephen Bye. Rouanne, formerly of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent will be the Chief Network Officer. Bye, who previously worked at C-Spire and Sprint, will be Chief Commercial Officer, leading network application development and commercialization. They join Tom Cullen (EVP, Corporate Development), Jeff McSchooler (EVP, 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…
Assurant announced it has acquired CPR – (Cell Phone Repair), one of the largest global franchisors of mobile device repair stores with more than 700 locations. “Acquiring CPR is a part of our ongoing efforts to improve the customer experience by expanding options for service and support where, when and how consumers want,” said Manny Becerra, president Read more…
Well, we think so. And we’re not the only one. Peter Adderton, founder of Boost Mobile, thinks so as well. Below is a link to an interview Peter did on Bloomberg TV: — 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 Read more…
Starting Friday, November 1, 2020, T-Mobile will offer their First Responder Plan, providing discounts to first responders and their families. It’s the same discount that T-Mobile gave to military, veterans and their families last year. Those that qualify include state and local police, fire and EMS personnel, their families … and “everyone who counts on them to Read more…
According to a memo sent to AT&T prepaid dealers, starting January 1, 2020 you will have to purchase your AT&T Prepaid SIMs from your Master Dealer, or commission will not be paid (see below – you can click on the image to enlarge it.) — NWIDA members, contact us today if you need our assistance and if Read more…
According to a report on 9News (link below), the Colorado Attorney General’s Office is ending its participation in a multi-state lawsuit to halt the T-Mobile and Sprint merger, after reaching agreements with Dish and T-Mobile. Under the terms of the agreements, Dish will locate its new wireless headquarters with at least 2,000 full-time employees in Colorado. T-Mobile, Read more…
NWIDA and Vendor Partner Eternity Wireless has put together a Flash Sale website. Any dealer can visit and order from special closeouts and other items – priced to move. And, NWIDA members save on each purchase. The current NWIDA discount is a savings of an additional 15%! (this discount will change. The current discount expires October 31, 2019) You Read more…
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