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losing 'Trac'tion?!.....Verizon buying Tracfone.......
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.....for $6.25 billion....

Verizon to buy wireless services provider Tracfone in $6.25 billion deal

Verizon Communications said Monday it would buy wireless services provider Tracfone, a unit of Mexican telecom America Movil, in a $6.25 billion cash and stock deal.

The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2021 and is subject to regulatory approvals.

.....Verizon Communications said Monday it would buy wireless services provider Tracfone, a unit of Mexican telecom America Movil, in a $6.25 billion cash and stock deal.

Several mergers in recent years have led to an increasingly concentrated wireless industry in the U.S., with the bulk of control under Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, which recently completed its merger with Sprint. Tracfone is the largest prepaid mobile brand in the United States, with approximately 21 million subscribers and more than 90,000 retail locations, which means Verizon will boost its subscriber base considerably. It also plans to sell 5G to Tracfone customers in the coming years and carriers compete to roll out the faster networks.

The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2021 and is subject to regulatory approvals.

The deal will include $3.125 billion in cash and $3.125 billion in Verizon common stock. It also includes up to an additional $650 million in future cash consideration related to the achievement of certain performance measures. Verizon shares were up more than 1% in premarket trading.



easy to trace........the trac(s) of my tears......?!
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#2
As a satisfied Tracfone customer, here's hoping they don't fsck it up.
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#3
Why would they buy it if they did not want to influence it? Tracfone has several Verizon MVNOs (Tracfone, Total, Net10) that they have consolidated and they have contracts to use the Verizon network. Reducing competition is a thing. I probably should not say more on this side.
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#4
The Tracfones that I've had were all on the AT&T network.
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#5
Tracfone offers service on the big 3, your choice. You can actually buy a SIM kit with 3 different SIMs, your choice.

TracFone runs on the four major networks (i.e. Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon), and accepts devices from all of them. This extends to the MVNOs that run on these networks as well. What that means is that you'll be able to BYOP from virtually any carrier along with you for service on TracFone's network.
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#6
Great. First Sprint, then Tracfone. Less competition should be great for wireless rates, no?
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#7
GGD wrote:
The Tracfones that I've had were all on the AT&T network.

Yep, for awhile you had to search by model number (or serial number) to make sure a particular Tracfone was on CDMA (Verizon) instead of GSM (AT&T/T-Mobile)

But lately you've been able to pick your network as another poster noted.
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