{"id":36384,"date":"2020-07-02T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2631184"},"modified":"2020-07-02T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:05:00","slug":"dish-buys-boost-prepaid-biz-from-t-mobile-finally-enters-wireless-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/02\/dish-buys-boost-prepaid-biz-from-t-mobile-finally-enters-wireless-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish buys Boost prepaid biz from T-Mobile, finally enters wireless market"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dish buys former Sprint prepaid business amid plans to build its own 5G network.<\/h2>\n
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Dish Network has completed a $1.4 billion acquisition of Boost Mobile, a former Sprint subsidiary that resells prepaid mobile service.<\/p>\n

After years of buying up spectrum<\/a> but never delivering service, Dish is finally a mobile provider—albeit as a reseller that doesn’t yet operate its own network. Dish was able to buy Boost as part of the merger agreement in which the Department of Justice allowed T-Mobile to buy Sprint. The DOJ required<\/a> T-Mobile and Sprint to sell Dish the prepaid business as well as spectrum licenses and wholesale access to the combined T-Mobile\/Sprint network. The prepaid sale and wholesale access are intended to let Dish operate a wireless business as a network reseller while it builds its own 5G network that could eventually make it the fourth major wireless provider.<\/p>\n

“With this purchase, Dish officially enters the retail wireless market, serving more than nine million customers,” Dish said in a press release<\/a> today. Starting tomorrow, Dish said its Boost subsidiary will offer a “$hrink-It! plan, which starts at $45 for 15GB, reduces customers’ monthly rates by $5 after three on-time payments, and by an additional $5 after six total on-time payments.” Boost will also “offer a $35 10GB plan that includes unlimited talk and text,” Dish said.<\/p>\n

Before the T-Mobile\/Sprint merger, Boost used Sprint’s network to provide wireless service. Under the new setup, “Boost has begun, and will continue, to activate customers with a compatible device onto the new T-Mobile network, where customers will receive a stronger signal, faster speeds and more coverage,” Dish said. T-Mobile said<\/a> the deal also gives Boost customers access to “roaming in certain areas until Dish’s 5G network is built out.”<\/p>\n

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FURTHER READING<\/h3>\n

DOJ’s plan to make Dish the fourth major carrier has a fatal flaw<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dish said it is “continu[ing] vendor selection” for the 5G network it plans to build, having already struck deals with “Fujitsu for radio units and Altiostar and Mavenir for cloud-native, Open RAN software.” Dish is also a satellite-TV provider with about 9 million<\/a> video subscribers, and it is the owner of the Sling TV online service.<\/p>\n

The DOJ, which took an active role in facilitating the divestitures, applauded the Dish\/Boost deal today in an unusual press release<\/a> titled “Justice Department congratulates T-Mobile and Dish for closing the Boost divestiture.” Although the T-Mobile\/Sprint merger reduced the US wireless market from four major carriers to three, DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim said the Boost selloff “is a significant milestone in realizing the Department of Justice’s remedy, which is designed to strengthen competition for high-quality 5G networks and benefit American consumers nationwide.”<\/p>\n

As we’ve previously written<\/a>, the government-imposed conditions require Dish to cover 70 percent of the US population with 5G by June 2023. That could leave 100 million Americans without the option of a fourth carrier if Dish doesn’t go far beyond that 70 percent requirement. Dish also got approval from the Federal Communications Commission to build a 4G network in 2012<\/a>, but it never did so.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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See Campaign: <\/strong>https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/01\/dish-wants-to-disrupt-cellular-industry-likely-to-win-spectrum-auction\/<\/a>
Contact Information:<\/b>
JON BRODKIN<\/p>\n

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JON BRODKIN<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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