I would have to agree with Claude . Dish is spending billions on the scraps. Plus they spent billions on existing spectrum and how many billions to build there on network.It sounds like they wanted so bad to prove that they were a cell service that the final outcome doesn’t matter. Sprint was number 4 and was barely making it. I think they should have stuck to there original plan of 5g . T mobile is laughing all the way to the bank .
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Actually you said it better than I did.
It seems like sprint had to give up something, and they gave up their least valuable asset.
When Dish starts building their own towers and using some of the spectrum they spent billions to acquire, then I’ll believe it.
I can’t see boost becoming a major 4th cellular carrier. They have no corporate stores and simply a network of independent retailers.
And if he thinks he is going to have Dish Retailers sell Boost... let’s see how well AT&T is doing having their Directv retailers sell cell phones.
Satellite dealers want nothing to do with cellular telephones,
Only thing the retailers want to do with cellular is providing hot spots to provide internet to residential homes as alternative to satellite internet.
There are absolutely no requirements to be a boost retailer unlike Verizon or AT&T and they will sign up anyone to sell their product.
Just last week I had a rep from Boost mobile trying to sign my store up. This is the 3rd or 4th time they approached me. I turned them down because to be honest between Directv, Comcast and spectrum I really don’t have time to mess around with cell phones. I can sell AT&T cellular product but don’t want to get into that business either.
IMHO, I just don’t see Charlie launching a nationwide cellular service with Boost mobile being the backbone of the operation.
The service will need to be renamed and they need corporate stores, or retailers who operate an independent store that has a corporate look and feel.
All the boost mobile stores I know in my neck of the woods are in the inner city. They have a small lobby and bullet proof glass separating the front counter as most of these stores are ran by a single employee.
Like I said, build the towers and the network from the ground up and we shall see. But so far Dish has not invested in anything except for fake 5G test sites in an attempt to save their licenses from expiring.
