Cable companies’ wireless offerings are a bigger threat to telco wireless providers than telco wireless providers’ broadband offerings are to cable companies, according to a new research note from telecom industry financial analysts at SVB MoffettNathanson. It’s a contrarian view…
Orlando, FL – July 25, 2022 – NCTC, the National Content & Technology Cooperative,representing 700+ independent communications service providers who connect one third of North American and U.S. Territory households and businesses to the world,today announced it is closing in…
The National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) expects to have an MVNO deal in place by the end of the year that would enable the company’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 broadband and video provider members to offer wireless service, said…
Dish said today that it has reached an agreement with T-Mobile to use the T-Mobile Ultra Capacity 5G network to provide connectivity to Dish mobile customers and to customers of Dish’s retail wireless brands, including Boost Mobile. The agreement requires…
Customer satisfaction with their wireless service has dipped slightly, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Wireless Phone Service and Cell Phone Study 2021-2022. The latest report said that customer satisfaction has slipped 1.4% to a score of 73…
CableLabs, the cable industry’s research and development lab, has formed a working group that will look at hybrid-MVNO options for combining the Wi-Fi and 4G/5G networks that cable companies own with mobile networks that the cable companies use but which…
The recently announced MVNO deal with AT&T will make Dish a much stronger competitor, according to a new report from Craig Moffett and other researchers at financial research firm MoffettNathanson. Without the AT&T deal, Dish likely would have gone bankrupt,…
A new DISH AT&T wireless deal has the two companies partnering for MVNO services and 5G. A Network Services Agreement (NSA) with AT&T will make AT&T the primary network services partner for DISH MVNO customers and will support DISH’s upcoming…
Dish’s acquisition of Boost Mobile, Sprint’s prepaid wireless business, is now complete. The Dish Boost acquisition is valued at $1.4 billion and includes more than 9.3 million customers. Dish also gains a seven-year MVNO agreement with T-Mobile that will put…
Xfinity Mobile finished on top in the full-service wireless mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) category in the 2019-2020 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) rankings for wireless carriers. Xfinity Mobile is three years old and reports having 2 million customers. The…
A Comcast spokesperson confirmed that Xfinity Mobile 5G service, announced today, will run on the Verizon network through the MVNO agreement between the companies. The Verizon 5G network is available in parts of 34 markets nationwide. Where it isn’t available,…
Altice today became the latest cable company to launch a mobile service offering. The offering, dubbed Altice Mobile, comes with an attractive introductory price of just $20 a month “for life” for unlimited data, text, talk and mobile hotspot nationwide….
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