Prepaid Wireless News
By Joe Paonessa • 09/01/20
Back on August 21st, Cricket Wireless officially launched 5G network access. Just days later, analysts at Wave7 Research spotted the first Cricket Wir...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/31/20
In early August, Boost Mobile updated its phone promos with one of the lead offers featuring the 32GB iPhone 7 for $29.99. The in-store only offer was...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/30/20
Metro By T-Mobile has lowered the switcher price of the 64GB iPhone SE to $49.99. Since first launching on Metro back in April, it had been selling fo...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/29/20
Consumer Cellular recently launched a promotion offering new customers up to 3 lines of free service for their first month. The offer is good for any...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/21/20
In late July, AT&T announced that it turned on its 5G network nationwide. Also contained in the announcement was a blurb stating that the network...
All Major Carriers Experienced Growth In Prepaid During The Same Quarter For The First Time In Years
By Joe Paonessa • 08/17/20
Quarter 2 of 2020 led to growth in the prepaid divisions of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. According to a recent report by the firm Wave7 Research,...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/15/20
FreeUP Mobile’s first venture into multi-month plans began last November. Just one multi-month plan was launched by the AT&T powered provider. Pri...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/06/20
Spectrum Mobile quietly updated its phone plan lineup today with a new offering. There’s a new “unlimited” plan now available called “Unlimited Plus”...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/03/20
The DISH Network and Tucows Inc. jointly announced today that DISH has acquired some Ting Mobile assets from Tucows. A representative speaking on beha...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/28/20
Boost Mobile was officially purchased from T-Mobile by the DISH Network on July 1st, 2020. T-Mobile was required to offload the brand in order to gain...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/28/20
The DISH Network officially took over the Boost Mobile brand on July 1, 2020. With that takeover, DISH made several immediate changes to Boost Mobile....
By Joe Paonessa • 07/24/20
Cricket Wireless now has a launch date for 5G wireless. On August 21st, subscribers will be able to activate 5G service on the network. Cricket’s firs...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/23/20
Straight Talk Wireless is the largest of the Tracfone owned brands and its subscriber count continues to grow. In quarter 2 of 2020, Straight Talk add...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/23/20
On July 23, 2020, T-Mobile unveiled a couple of new offers that will officially go live on July 24, 2020. As usual with T-Mobile, the announcement cam...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/21/20
Leading up to the DISH Network’s takeover of Boost Mobile, Boost Mobile dealers and Boost Mobile’s online store both faced a shortage of phones. Deale...