News & notes

News and Notes

You should read this article about Boost and Dish

Monica Alleven has a great piece on FireceWireless (link below) on what Dish is “discovering” about the prepaid (and postpaid) wireless business in the…

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New Rate Plans for Boost

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…

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Dish Buys Ting

DISH Network today announced that it has chosen Tucows as a technology partner for its retail wireless business – and has part of the…

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Sprint Survives?

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…

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CES 2021 will be all digital – no in person attendees

How do you move a trade show that regularly draws over 100,000 to an all digital format? We can ask CES 2021 – because…

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Blue Wireless Shuts Down – Sells Spectrum to Verizon

Blue Wireless, a regional carrier serving customers in New York and Pennsylvania has shut down and has sold its spectrum to Verizon. Blue informed…

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T-Mobile to require VoLTE on all phones in January

If you have T-Mobile (or the former Sprint) service, you’ll need a VoLTE phone by January, or your service will stop. According to T-Mobile…

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AT&T Announces End of Life for 3G Network

AT&T has announced the End-of-Life of its 3G network, and has started to tell customers (see below) that their device will not be compatible with…

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Google And Repair Industry Ads

Almost a year ago, we wrote how Google had stopped accepting ads from repair places. ALL repair places. And since then we’ve been trying…

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T-Mobile Latest UnCarrier Announcement

Today, T-Mobile announced the latest changes in their “un-carrier” marketing – including: ScamShield – “Real Caller ID” to all customers (T-Mobile, Metro and Sprint)…

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