Prepaid Wireless News
By Joe Paonessa • 09/23/20
On September 22nd, DISH announced that Stephen Stokols would become the Executive Vice President (EVP) of Boost Mobile. Stokols has a lot of familiari...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/15/20
Pix Wireless is shutting down its Silver network plans on September 20, 2020. According to a HowardForums post, the provider sent a notification email...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/14/20
Verizon announced that it has agreed to acquire Tracfone, the nation’s largest prepaid wireless provider for a total of up to $6.9 billion. Verizon is...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/09/20
Mint Mobile has launched a new phone plan that will surely turn some heads. The new multi-month phone plan includes unlimited everything with the firs...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/04/20
US Mobile has updated its phone plans to become even more competitive in an industry that is overflowing with competition. The MVNO has got some new s...
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...