Starting Friday, November 1, 2020, T-Mobile will offer their First Responder Plan, providing discounts to first responders and their families. It’s the same discount that T-Mobile gave to military, veterans and their families last year. Those that qualify include state and local police, fire and EMS personnel, their families … and “everyone who counts on them to Read more…
According to a memo sent to AT&T prepaid dealers, starting January 1, 2020 you will have to purchase your AT&T Prepaid SIMs from your Master Dealer, or commission will not be paid (see below – you can click on the image to enlarge it.) — NWIDA members, contact us today if you need our assistance and if Read more…
According to a report on 9News (link below), the Colorado Attorney General’s Office is ending its participation in a multi-state lawsuit to halt the T-Mobile and Sprint merger, after reaching agreements with Dish and T-Mobile. Under the terms of the agreements, Dish will locate its new wireless headquarters with at least 2,000 full-time employees in Colorado. T-Mobile, Read more…
NWIDA and Vendor Partner Eternity Wireless has put together a Flash Sale website. Any dealer can visit and order from special closeouts and other items – priced to move. And, NWIDA members save on each purchase. The current NWIDA discount is a savings of an additional 15%! (this discount will change. The current discount expires October 31, 2019) You Read more…
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…