Some of our Metro by T-Mobile dealers have been in touch with us regarding the compensation and procedural changes that are scheduled to come about October 1. We’ve written to Metro executives, including Jon Freier, and have heard back and began a dialog with them. We’re impressing upon them how these changes will impact the dealers business Read more…
Shentel (Shenandoah Telecommunications Company) is a Sprint affiliate and operates wireless and wireline networks in rural Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. However, you may have heard, Sprint doesn’t exist anymore – it’s been purchased by T-Mobile. What Shentel would do for wireless has been up for discussion since the merger, and it’s been long rumored that Read more…
Today, we’re starting a new series of articles, focusing on our partners. You can find these on LinkedIn but we’ll also post them here. So let’s start: Each post will highlight one of our partners, what they do, and how they help us assist the independent wireless dealer. Today, we’re talking about Eternity Wireless. Eternity Wireless is a Read more…
Since retiring the Sprint brand this month, T-Mobile now has the most retail stores of any postpaid carrier, beating AT&T by more than 2,000 stores based on Wave7 Research counts. T-Mobile now has more than 7,500 retail stores. By Wave7 estimates, T-Mobile also has hundreds of more stores than Verizon, which previously had the largest postpaid retail Read more…
Back in the days when I worked for a carrier (#MetroOne), we regularly sent out techs (and sometimes non-techs) to “drive test” our coverage area. Literally people in cars, with like 5 cell-phone antennas on the top – looking for holes in the coverage and seeing where our competition had better coverage than we did. Apparently, that Read more…
We are thrilled to announce the addition of T-CETRA, to the NWIDA member family. T-Cetra is a top Technology Service Provider (TSP) and they specialize in creating innovative payment solutions for independent wireless dealers and underserved, cash-preferred customers. With the help of big-name partners like TracFone, Verizon, and Ultra Mobile, T-CETRA services all aspects of the prepaid Read more…
Monica Alleven has a great piece on FireceWireless (link below) on what Dish is “discovering” about the prepaid (and postpaid) wireless business in the US – and apparently, it’s opening some eyes there on how “backwards” it is. A quote from Charlie Ergen: “There are some of those customers that perhaps the way Sprint accounted for them Read more…
New Boost Owners… New Boost Plans! Back in July, Boost announced the return of the $hrink-It! plan, as well as a $35 plan with unlimited talk, text, and 10GB of data. Now, Boost has announced a complete set of new rate plans. All plans have unlimited Talk & Text, as well as: $10 per month plan – UNL Read more…
DISH Network today announced that it has chosen Tucows as a technology partner for its retail wireless business – and has part of the deal has acquired Ting Mobile assets, including customer relationships, from Tucows. Effective August 1, 2020, most Ting Mobile customers across the U.S. became customers of DISH. These customers will continue to use their Read more…
Huh? Is it possible? Can you really get SPRINT service after August 2nd? To quote Bugs Bunny… “Could be….” There are reports that Best Buy may be granted permission to keep selling Sprint under the Sprint brand after August 2nd. Existing Sprint customers will reportedly continue to be allowed to add new lines and upgrades in Best Buy stores after Read more…