Last month, the FCC approved agreements between Dish and its wireless competitors — AT-T, T-Mobile and Verizon — to allow these companies to temporarily lend some of their unutilized wireless spectrum to cope with potential increases in network usage. The agreements allow these companies to use Dish frequency for 60 days to support their 4G-LTE networks. As part of the deal, Dish Sprints is acquiring the prepaid mobile brand Boost and 800MHz sprints to create a 5G network to compete with AT-T, Verizon and the new T-Mobile. The Boost prepaid brand will give Dish immediate access to a mobile business with approximately 9.4 million subscribers. He will work as an MVNO or mobile virtual network operator by leasing access to the Sprint and T-Mobile wireless networks and reselling the service under the Boost label. The merger of T-Mobile Sprint was only authorized by the Department of Justice when Dish said it would take over the sprint mobile carrier to become a fourth rival airline to AT-T, Verizon and the new T-Mobile. The sale of Sprint`s prepaid business has more than 9.3 million customers. T-Mobile receives approximately $1.4 billion for Sprint`s prepaid operations, subject to a customary post-closing working capital adjustment. In addition, prepaid customers and new DISH wireless customers will be able to fully access the new T-Mobile network until DISH`s 5G network is implemented, in a phased approach, through an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) agreement and a mobile network operator agreement (MNO). As part of the CLOSING of the DISH transaction, T-Mobile, Sprint and DISH entered into other ancillary contracts, including a spectrum purchase agreement. According to the states, this is an easy case to do because three carriers offer less competition than four, and they are skeptical that the new shell will offer a lot of competition.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said at the start of the trial: “The T-Mobile and Sprint mega-merger would reduce competition in the mobile market and be bad for consumers, bad for workers and bad for innovation.” (Dish and Sprint declined to comment, citing the current case.