Texas AG, Ken Paxton, announced that his office reached a settlement with T-Mobile resolving the state’s antitrust claims against the proposed merger of mobile wireless telecommunications service providers Sprint and T-Mobile. The agreement is designed to prevent the New T-Mobile from increasing prices for wireless services on Texans for five years after the merger is complete. The Read more…
NWIDA is pleased to announce our 23rd Vendor Partner (VP) – The Mobility Marketplace. Vendor Partners are companies who have graciously agreed to provide discounts or “something more” to our Retail Members. NWIDA members will save between $15-$20 on EACH DEVICE purchased including handsets, phones, MiFis and more. The Mobility Marketplace saves 30-50% over new pricing and Read more…
Peter Adderton, Founder of Boost Mobile, still wants the US operations of Boost (he still runs Boost in Australia
Peter Adderton, Founder of Boost Mobile, still wants the US operations of Boost (he still runs Boost in Australia
The DoJ announced that Arkansas has joined Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota in the settlement, which is designed to launch Dish as a fourth nationwide provider of retail mobile wireless services. “We are gratified that Arkansas shares our view of the tremendous benefits to competition that will arise out of the proposed Read more…
Dish has started to build out its wireless executive team, hiring Marc Rouanne and Stephen Bye. Rouanne, formerly of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent will be the Chief Network Officer. Bye, who previously worked at C-Spire and Sprint, will be Chief Commercial Officer, leading network application development and commercialization. They join Tom Cullen (EVP, Corporate Development), Jeff McSchooler (EVP, Read more…
T-Mobile made 4 big “UnCarrier” annoucements today: Nationwide 5G will launch December 6 T-Mobile Heroes Initiative: a 10 year commitment to free 5G access with unlimited talk, text and data for EVERY first responder in the USA Free service and hotspots to 10 million households around the US, designed to close the digital gap at schools T-Mobile Connect – $15/month prepaid service. Read more…
Peter Adderton, founder of Boost Mobile, Peter thinks Dish will be looking to cut costs and could jettison as many as 2.5 million prepaid customers. Apparently, these would be wireless consumers that Dish doesn’t believe it could make any money on. Adderton believes Dish will need to cut costs so that it can pay for the build-out Read more…
Assurant announced it has acquired CPR – (Cell Phone Repair), one of the largest global franchisors of mobile device repair stores with more than 700 locations. “Acquiring CPR is a part of our ongoing efforts to improve the customer experience by expanding options for service and support where, when and how consumers want,” said Manny Becerra, president Read more…
Well, we think so. And we’re not the only one. Peter Adderton, founder of Boost Mobile, thinks so as well. Below is a link to an interview Peter did on Bloomberg TV: — NWIDA members, contact us today if you need our assistance and if you’re not yet a member, we invite you to join today. Want Read more…