Dish Gets Ting Mobile Subs for Picking Tucows as ‘Technology Partner’
Dish Network picked network services provider Tucows as a “technology partner” for its retail wireless business, said the companies Monday. Most U.S. Ting Mobile subscribers became Dish customers Saturday. Tucows positioned Ting for “easy to use services” and “simple value…
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pricing,” said a March 4 annual report. Tucows finished 2019 with 289,000 Ting customers, down from 296,000 in 2018, it said. Dish said the agreement will speed its “digital and operational capabilities in wireless.” Transferring the Ting Mobile subs to Dish frees Tucows to focus on its mobile services enabler business of which Dish becomes the first customer. The Boost acquisition from Sprint thrust Dish “into the retail business in a way we didn’t expect,” said Chairman Charlie Ergen on a recent investor call (see 2005070049).