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Sprint is shutting down Virgin Mobile ahead of planned T-Mobile merger
Sprint is getting ready for its planned T-Mobile merger by axing one of its prepaid brands. The telecom is shutting down Virgin Mobile service and will transfer all customers to Boost Mobile starting the week of February 2nd. You'll keep your phone a...
Major broadcasters sue nonprofit TV service over copyright infringement
CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox have joined forces in a fight against Locast, a nonprofit streaming service funded in part by AT&T Inc and Dish Network Corp. The service is marketed as a distribution alternative for people who can't get local TV signals th...
Bloomberg: Dish is close to a $6 billion deal with Sprint and T-Mobile
Over the last couple of weeks, we've heard that getting DoJ approval for T-Mobile's proposed $26 billion purchase of Sprint will require making moves to create a new national wireless carrier as a competitor. That could be achieved by selling off Boo...
Comcast Considers T-Mobile Acquisition
German Telekom is trying again to sell T-Mobile. Flamboyant T-Mobile CEO John Legere grew customers to 39 million, but the growth comes at a cost. German Telekom has tried since years to get rid of T...
Dish Network and T-Mobile are in Merger Talks
On Wednesday it was reported by the Wall Street Journal that Dish network the satellite TV service and T-Mobile are in talks regarding a merger. The merger between the media and the communication...
Dish becomes Sling International, adds 200 Channels to Sling TV
Starting from today Dish Network’s on-demand international service has a new name ‘Sling International’. Formerly it was known as the DishWorld the network. Sling International now adds more...
Sling TV adds Epix Channels
Last week Dish's Sling TV announced to offer AMC in addition to the current live TV channel offering. Sling TV is available for $20 month to everyone since about a week. Today Sling TV announced a...
Sling TV is Now Open for Everyone
Sling TV is an online TV streaming service from Dish Networks and is now going to be available to everyone. The service that was previously giving out invitation only soft launch has finally late...
CES 2015: Dish To Launch Standalone Sling TV Streaming Service For $20/Month
It had been a long time since we had been speculating what was going on behind those curtains but Dish has finally decided to end that period and has announced more details on its much-awaited...