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…
According to a leaked internal memo, some of T-Mobile’s executives have new positions, some are leaving the company and there is a mysterious “brand-new venture” coming. Reported by TMonews (link below), John Legere and COO Mike Sievert sent out the memo that included the following information: Jon Freier is getting the expanded role of Executive Vice President, Read more…
According to an article (link below) in The Verge, Sprint and T-Mobile have opted to extend the merger deadline an extra month. T-Mobile and Sprint announced a deadline extension for the $26.5 billion merger in a filing with the SEC. The two companies now have until July 29 to convince the FCC and DOJ to approve the Read more…
From our friends at Repair.org Minnesota is preparing to vote on Right to Repair, HF 1138, possibly this coming week. If you know anyone in Minnesota — please encourage them to call or email their representatives asking them to vote for HF 1138 when it comes to the floor. This will be our first ever vote in Read more…
Sprint has set the End of Life for CDMA (for MVNOs too) NWIDA has been able to confirm with numerous Sprint MVNOs, that MAY 1 is the end of life date for all CDMA activations. Verizon declared their date months ago (story here) but this is the first time we’ve been able to confirm with multiple MVNOs. Of course, Read more…
According to an article in The Verge (link below), Sprint & AT&T have settled their lawsuit over AT&T’s “5G E” Logo. We have amicably settled this matter,” said an AT&T spokesperson. Anonymous sources have said that AT&T would keep using “5G E” in its marketing material. AT&T and Sprint also confirmed its statement to The Verge. Both companies Read more…