News & notes

News and Notes

Dish Files for Bankruptcy

Dish, the satellite pay-TV subsidiary of EchoStar, along with its wireless subsidiaries, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  The filing includes a prepackaged restructuring…

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Boom Mobile Files for Bankruptcy

  Boom! Mobile has filed for bankruptcy chapter 11. In addition, Boom has discontinued offering their “red” service and their offering of “purple” is…

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Proposal Could End Anonymous Prepaid Wireless Service

The FCC has proposed new “Know Your Customer” (KYC) requirements that would require wireless providers to collect identifying information from every new and renewing…

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Cash App Launches MVNO

Cash App is the latest brand to jump into wireless, announcing a new MVNO offering called Cash App Mobile that runs on AT&T’s network.…

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Cellpay joins NWIDA

NWIDA Welcomes CellPay as Vendor Partner, Expanding Prepaid Mobile Recharge and Bill Payment Access for Retailers Nationwide Today, NWIDA announced that CellPay has joined…

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Noble Mobile Acquires Helium

Noble Mobile, the MVNO launched by former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, has acquired Helium Mobile. Terms were not disclosed. The deal pairs two small…

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T-Mobile moves towards all-digital — no dealers

Way back in September, 2024 we posted about Jon Freier (COO at T-Mobile) starting to close their retail stores (link.)  At that time, Jon…

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MVNOs News(es)

There’s been some Carrier and MVNO news recently – so we’re going to summarize it here: In a rare show of unity, the “Big…

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Trump Mobile Updates T/C – Says Phone May Never Come

Trump Mobile has updated it’s Device Pre-Order page (link below) and now says the T-1 phone may never be made.  We’ve put the screenshot…

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Tariff Refund Portal Opens Monday

A new tariff refund system is set to open Monday for businesses that paid import duties later struck down by the courts. For wireless…

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