In honor of Military Appreciation Month, but any wireless store/repair shop, owned by active military or a veteran, will have their membership extended by 6 months. This offer is valid through June 15, 2019 Join for 6 months, get a year. Join for a year, get 18 months. Simply contact us for your special discount code. Read more…
According to a report on BestMVNO (link below), Boost Mobile has suffered a data breach involving their customer account info. Boost stated that on March 14th hackers gained access to an unknown number of its customer accounts. Customer accounts were breached through Boostmobile.com and hackers gained access to customer accounts through the use of their phone number Read more…
We now have the more detailed report from Bloomberg (link below) As we stated in the first post, among the options being discussed is the separation and potential sale of the prepaid businesses. Other options — such as selling airwave licenses or setting up a new fourth carrier through a network-leasing arrangement — are being discussed but Read more…
Per a report on TheFly, T-Mobile and Sprint are considering different concessions in order to save the merger, including a sale of their prepaid businesses. While the report (link below) is just a snippet at this point, the way it’s worded could mean one prepaid business (Boost?) or multiple, if not all of them. We’ll update as Read more…
The Sprint earnings call took place late yesterday and we have the facts and figures Sprint reported a net loss of $2.2 billion and operating loss of $1.7 billion in its fourth quarter, which ended March 31. The company ended the 2018 fiscal year with a net loss of $1.9 billion and operating income of $397 million. Read more…
Sprint Corporation is expected* to report earnings later today (after market close.) The report will be for the fiscal Quarter ending Mar 2019. According to Zacks Investment Research, based on 14 analysts’ forecasts, the consensus EPS forecast for the quarter is $-0.02. The reported EPS for the same quarter last year was $0.02. — NWIDA members, contact Read more…
According to an article in the Kansas City Business Journal (link below). Sprint’s promotions including free cellphone lines and rewards for Sprint Corp.’s sales representatives boosted the image of the wireless carrier’s financial health, making it appear better than reality, The report quotes a report in the Wall Street Journal. Sprint sales representatives were paid commissions based Read more…
Per an article in Motherboard/Vice (link below), Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is calling for a national Right to Repair Law. While the article concentrated on the farm machinery part of such a law, there is a section on how this impacts the wireless world: But the right-to-repair is an issue bigger than farm and it affects all Read more…
Per an article on PrepaidPhoneNews (link below) Boom! Mobile sent out an email to it’s Sprint based customers explaining the decision of the company and details of a Ting-exclusive offer that affected customers can opt for. All customers that use a Sprint (CDMA) device on Boom! Mobile will be moved to Ting Mobile, an industry-leading service provider Read more…
As previously reported Sprint (and it’s prepaid brands and MVNOs) can no longer activate, or make changes to, any CDMA only handsets. Almost. NWIDA has spoken to a few MVNOs who have “pre-activated” and “frozen” a limited number of CDMA handsets, and will continue to sell them until the current supply is exhausted. But, outside of that Read more…