We are seeing quite a few repair shops saying that iOS 16 is causing many aftermarket LCD and OLEDs to blackout and not function – especially on the iPhone 12 series. Customers with previously working phones cannot see anything on their screens after updating to the latest iOS. A number of shops have reported replacing the screens Read more…
As seen in BestMVNO.com, and as reported by us and Wave7 Research, Total Wireless is about to become Total by Verizon. Walmart’s Total Wireless webpage has been updated to add “get ready for something big,” and “find new horizons in September 2022, keep the plans and coverage you already love, and more.” BestMVNO has also found a Read more…
Last week, T-Mobile announced a partnership with SpaceX that would allow T-Mobile customers to “roam” on the satellite network – at least as far as messaging goes. Today, Apple may have outdone them. One of the new features in the iPhone14 is… Satellite SOS services. From Apple: The iPhone 14 lineup also introduces Emergency SOS via satellite, Read more…
NWIDA Members Now Save and Dealers NEVER Run Out of Screen Protection Today, we’re happy to introduce ProtectMyPhone as their latest Vendor Partner (“VP”). NWIDA members will receive exclusive discounts on their entire product line. ProtectMyPhone is a spray-on and wipe on application, that offers proven dual protection against two very expensive problems – breaking the screen Read more…
GenMobile has introduced new rate plans: To go with the Unlimited Talk & Text, you get: 3GB for $207GB for $3016GB for $40and “unlimited” for $50 (throttled after 35GB) And they include hotspot data, and calling to 100+ countries. — NWIDA members, contact us today if you need our assistance and if you’re not yet a Read more…
Short answer – not too much – right now. Longer answer: Well, what IS the deal. It’s a “roaming”(??) agreement between T-Mobile and Starlink, where Starlink will provide “coverage” where there is no T-Mobile towers… BUT… • No Voice.• SMS/MMS and “select” messaging apps only• MAYBE video – as Elon said “If there aren’t too many people Read more…
A message to Boost dealers today that was posted on Social Media describes some “organizational changes” – reducing their regions from 8 to 7 (as well as presumably reducing their Boost Mobile Field Sales Team employee count.) The new regions are: Pacific Coast, South, MidWest, Great Lakes, Northeast, Mid Atlantic, Southeast. — NWIDA members, contact us Read more…
T-Mobile keeps promising not to raise prices, but once again, they’ve raised fees to the customer – and they continue to cut out the dealers who built the business. Back in October, 2000 Metro stopped paying dealers a fee to accept in-store payments. This didn’t decrease any income to the dealers, but certainly increased the cost – Read more…
Three of the nation’s largest TracFone master agents – Rushstar, Megatel and Cellucom – have merged to form Wireless Masters, and will become the first nationwide TracFone master agent. The new website isn’t quite ready for “prime-time” but dealers can sign up for information on the new company (although, when we tried to sign up, we received Read more…
One of the more interesting things we heard at the All Wireless & Prepaid Expo (#AWPE22) was that Consumer Cellular was planning to open corporate owned stores this year. And, after speaking to multiple vendors (and others) at the show, we feel confident that this will happen – and soon. Apparently, they’re looking to open 3 stores Read more…