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Dish is complaining to the FCC regarding T-Mobile s shutdown of Sprint s legacy 3G CDMA network.
T-Mobile is scheduled to shutter the network on January 1, 2022, earlier than the other major carriers.
Dish says this move could affect 9 million Boost Mobile customers who rely on the CDMA network.
Dish has a few choice words about T-Mobile. On January 1, 2022, the Magenta carrier is scheduled to shutter the 3G CDMA network inherited from the Sprint merger to refarm the spectrum for T-Mobile s own network. The move, however, took Dish by surprise and the new up-and-coming wireless carrier isn t happy about it. In a letter to the FCC (via