The Sprint / T-Mobile merger faced another setback when a federal judge extended his Tunney Act review of the U.S. DoJ settlement into mid-February. We had initially expected this routine review to end in mid-November. Now it might not conclude until after Judge Victor Marrero’s decision in the State AG case, thereby delaying T-Mobile’s ability to close Read more…
Unremovable Malware Found on LifeLine Phones. The UMX U686CL, an Android phone provided in the Lifeline program, comes preinstalled with malware that can’t be removed without making the device cease to work, researchers reported. Manufactured in China, the phone is provided by Virgin Mobile’s Assurance Wireless program. Researchers at Malwarebytes said on Thursday that the device comes Read more…
While Boss Revolution has long been in the prepaid telecom business, selling international calling cards – they’ve now become a full fledged MVNO, on the Sprint network – Boss Revolution Mobile. Offering 4 plans, and starting at $20/month, all the plans offer unlimited talk, text, and data with mobile hotspot. There is a high-speed 4G LTE data Read more…
Yesterday, we reported that Sprint had announced they’ve killed off the Virgin Mobile brand, and will be moving all those customers to Boost. Today we learned that the Virgin Group will be taking the Virgin Mobile brand back. Virgin is still deciding whether they will relaunch the brand in the US under a new identity. A representative Read more…
H2O Wireless announced that Sam Hamdan has joined the company as the VP of sales, a newly created position for the company. In this role, he will lead sales for H2O Wireless with an initial focus on improving the performance of H2O’s existing dealers while also expanding H2O’s dealer footprint in strategic US markets. Leveraging a unique Read more…
According to a text message (see below) Virgin Mobile, currently owned by Sprint in the US market, is shutting down and all customers will be automatically transferred to Boost. NWIDA received a copy of the message late last night and was able to forward it to Peter Adderton and Wave 7 Research, both who tweeted about it. Read more…
MVNO Mobile Nation, based in Tennessee, has posted that effective January 7, 2020 they will be “transitioning away from its facilities-based network that provides wireless network services” and that “Your MobileNation service will stop at 12:01 am on January 7, 2020.” No reason is given. The article has instructions on how to port out. Read the Read more…
So the other day, we posted an analyst estimation that the Sprint/T-Mobile merger would NOT go through (you read that, right? You read all our posts? Well, in case you missed it, it’s here.) Anyway, today we give you an article titled Judge’s Approval of T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Is Likely from Fortune magazine (link below.) This article believes, Read more…
According to an article on Seeking Alpha (link below), one analyst expects “that a federal judge will block the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint giving that prospect a 60% likelihood”. “After watching the witnesses, evidence, and Judge Marrero’s questions, we continue to believe the state AGs are likely to prevail,” the firm says, adding it’s not likely now Read more…
LightReading has an excellent article guest written by Matthew Lee, a journalist who covers the US District Court where the Sprint/T-Mobile merger lawsuit has just concluded testimony. In his article (link below), Lee does a good job in summarizing the arguments before Judge Victor Marrero, including Charlie Ergen’s (Dish) time on the stand as well as the Read more…
