On Wednesday, the FCC formally approved the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The merger was pushed through on a party-line vote with Democrats dissenting, said an FCC official. Now, the merger faces one more battle before they plan to close the deal. The FCC and DOJ are the only two federal agencies required to approve telecom deals Read more…
Recently, Google has updated their policy for blocking/stopping ads for 3rd party repair facilities – (see our article here) – and it’s not good news. Google posted (here) that: Our testing shows that the potential for ads that lead to abusive or misleading offline experiences in this category is still too high. As a result, we have Read more…
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced that his office recently reached an agreement with T-Mobile, resulting in the state dropping its opposition to the proposed merger with Sprint. Here are the commitments the New T-Mobile is making, according to the AG’s office: Within three years of closing on the merger, the New T-Mobile will deploy a 5G Read more…
According to an article on SDX Central, AT&T will leave Puerto Rico and the USVI and sell its network. Both wireless and wireline networks, as well as its spectrum and 1.1 million customers of both Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are included. The buyer is Liberty Latin America. The FCC and DoJ will have to Read more…
According to a story in Bloomberg (link below), the Sprint / T-Mobile merger has received a third “yes” vote at the FCC, moving the deal toward agency approval – according to two people familiar with the matter. All three Republicans on the five-member agency have voted for the deal, setting in motion procedures that would require agency Read more…
AT&T’s prepaid brand, Cricket Wireless, posted some news on its 3G network shut down – they will be ending service on 3G (UMTS) wireless networks in early 2022. To this, they will stop new activations of non-VoLTE devices beginning 2020. For customers who have activated a non-VoLTE device prior to mid-2020, they can still use their device Read more…
As posted earlier (link) Sprint took millions of dollars meant to subsidize phone and internet service for low-income consumer. In light of this, FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks has called on the agency to put its review of the T-Mobile / Sprint merger on hold until an investigation is resolved. In a statement released yesterday, Starks said the Read more…
Sprint took millions of dollars meant to subsidize phone and internet service for low-income consumers, even while those consumers were not using the service – at least according to the FCC. FCC chairman Pai called it a “careless disregard” for taxpayers and commission rules and called on the agency’s enforcement arm to conduct a full investigation. “It’s Read more…
NWIDA has received a copy of an email StraightTalk has sent out, stating that they’ve negotiated an extension of the CDMA end-of-life to the Summer of 2020. We have confirmed with Straight Talk that this is for the Verizon Network only. The text of the email is below. We are checking with other MVNOs to see if Read more…
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