AT&T Aquires some DISH Spectrum

[HipKat]

Largest American wireless providers

See also: List of mobile network operators of the Americas § United States
The top four wireless telecommunications facilities-based service providers by subscriber count in the United States are:

Verizon	146.1 million	Q2 2025	[2]​
T-Mobile US	132.8 million	Q2 2025	[3]​
AT&T Mobility	118.2 million	Q2 2025	[4]​
Boost Mobile	7.36 million	Q2 2025	[5]​

List of mobile network operators in the United States - Wikipedia

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Like I said, they are in the toilet. The cable MVNOs have about the same number of subscribers, how sad is that?

I guess to put a positive spin on it, when the Dish native network is 100% gone, Boost can say they are one of the, if not the largest MVNOs in the country.

Keep those blinders on, hater. Ignore the FACT that they're growing faster each quarter.
Now that they aren't trying to be one of the biggest, comparing them to the top three is utterly stupid

 

[AZ.]

Keep those blinders on, hater. Ignore the FACT that they're growing faster each quarter.
Now that they aren't trying to be one of the biggest, comparing them to the top three is utterly stupid

Ive never seen advertising? Do they by you? I get Mint mobile, and Consumer cellular regularly. And another aimed at older people.(cant remember name)

 

[Bruce]

Keep those blinders on, hater. Ignore the FACT that they're growing faster each quarter.
Now that they aren't trying to be one of the biggest, comparing them to the top three is utterly stupid

Before you go too overboard defending Dish/Boost, they still have to gain back 1.64 Million more subscribers , so to get to 9 million, which is the number of subscribers Boost had when Dish took over about 5 years ago.

 

[John2021]

Well, that came sooner than I expected, it was inevitable, but I thought it would be another year or two.

And here I was about to go back to the Boost Store this weekend, to attempt the activate service on an eSIM of my unlocked Pixel 10 XL that will be arriving in a day or two. Since they carry Pixel phones now, I was going to give it another shot. Guess I won't be doing that now.

I'm never in favor of less competition, but T-Mobile and Sprint needed to combine forces and the thought of a fourth nationwide provider was a pipe dream. While each provider seems to count their number of subscribers differently, when you have three big players with well over 100 million each, and #4 with less than 10 million, there is no reality where that 4th​ provider will survive.

The market has decided. There was never going to be anymore more than 2 DBS providers, there was never going to be more than 2 mobile operating systems, there was never going to be more than two GPU manufacturers, there's never going to be more than 3 nationwide MNOs.

Turning an MVNO into a semi MNO and losing subscribers in the process takes a special kind of stupid. I am a firm believer in you miss 100% of the shot you don't take, but this whole Dish Wireless was halfa$$ed from day one. It was nothing more than Charlie inflating his own Rocky Mountain sized ego wanting to become the king of wireless.

For all of Charlie's war cries about 'caring for the rural subscriber', he didn't seem to do a very good job of selling to Boost to rural subscribers. Boost Stores remained in the ghetto behind windows with bars on them, no one and I mean no one in the rural communities in my neck of the woods has even heard of Boost, some don't even realize Dish is even still in business.

The additional DoD will be huge for AT&T, not sure what to make of the n71 part of the deal. Between this, the ripping out of all of the Nokia crap and 4.9, AT&T is going to be a force to be reckoned within a few years.

AT&T just said they want to be best in class!!! ever since they got the first responders contract they ramped up there network!!! i remember when it was cingular and AT&T before cingular. i used to call em single bar . back in those days the reception sucked!!! now in my area they make verizon look like t-mobile with one bar service as we get full bars no matter where we are... plus we have there wide band service and a micro cell out in front of our house verizons still light years behind..

 

[John2021]

This will be a big win for AT&T customers. To bad we won't be seeing any samsung radios in AT&T'S network since they have a large contract with ericsson

 

[John2021]

From what i heard dish echostar will actually be shutting down there native network and decommissioning there towers, they will continue to have there own network core sims phone numbers ect. but it will all be roaming with AT&T as the primary partner and t-moble access as well

 

[navychop]

And another aimed at older people.(cant remember name)

GeezerFone?

 

[navychop]

i remember when it was cingular and AT&T before cingular.

And somewhere in there, "360" for a while. Stupid name. Maybe it was regional.

 

[John2021]

GeezerFone?