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News and Notes

Are you kidding me?

Reports are that the “done” “well, almost done” deal is “not done at all?” Apparently, T-Mobile is getting a bit tired of Charlie Ergen…

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Is Cricket Closing Stores

We’re hearing the Cricket – the prepaid brand of AT&T – may be shutting anywhere from 100-200 dealer stores. Cricket, like Boost and Metro,…

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Is Dish is looking for “More”?

The Dish / Boost deal is supposed to close by July 1, but Dish recently sent a memo to Boost employees stating: “T-Mobile has…

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Why Hasn’t Dish Closed on Boost?

According to an article in Fierce Wireless (link below) there are industry analysts that are asking “Why hasn’t Dish closed on Boost yet?” “We…

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More T-Mobile Firings Tomorrow

NWIDA has learned that T-Mobile will announce another round of staff firings tomorrow. The staff being terminated include director and manager level, and perhaps…

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T-Mobile to Close Company Stores on Thursday

NWIDA has learned that Jon Freier has announced (internally) that all T-Mobile Corporate owned stores (T-Mobile, Sprint and Metro) will be closed on Thursday…

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ZIP SIM to Shut Down

ZIP SIM, a Ting owned MVNO that catered to incoming (US) travelers has announced they will shut down effective June 30. To call COVID-19’s…

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Dish and T-Mobile Already Fighting

The Boost deal isn’t “done done” yet and already Dish and T-Mobile aren’t getting along. According to a Lightreading post (link below) and based…

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T-Mobile Re-Opening Corporate Stores

T-Mobile shut down over 80% of its corporate-owned stores during the pandemic, including all that were located in malls. Jon Freier, Executive VP of…

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Well, that was quick

No sooner do we report on one of the last pieces of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger (see here) but now we learn that Softbank (Sprint’s…

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