Dish closes Boost Mobile purchase, following T-Mobile/Sprint merger – ProWellTech
T-Mobile announced today that it made a deal that sells Sprints Prepaid companies, including Boost and Virgin Mobile. Dish finds the news Enter the mobile game seriously, courtesy of the $ 1.4 billion deal.
The whole thing was, of course, an integral part of T-Mobile’s offer to merge with Sprint. It was a relatively small concession for those who feared that such an agreement would affect competitiveness in the market as the number of major US airlines fell from four to three. The $ 26 billion T-Mobile / Sprint The deal was finally closed in April this year and has already resulted in hundreds of job losses, ProWellTech reported last month.
The deal gives Dish a good head start in the prepaid mobile game with more than nine million customers and access to T-Mobile’s wireless network for the next seven years. Dish’s current COO, John Swieringa, will head the new subsidiary. Oh, and there’s also a new Boost logo, see below.
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See? It’s basically the old one Boost Mobile Logo, but with the little Dish Wireless icons in the middle to really show you who the boss is. Dish took the opportunity to announce a new plan for Boost users with 15 GB of data for $ 45, and has already started moving consumers with compatible devices to the new network supported by T-Mobile.
