Gen MobileGen Mobile is an American wireless service provider that offers prepaid mobile plans, including domestic and international calling, text messaging, and mobile broadband. Customers may pay month-to-month or qualify for discounted service through government subsidy programs such as the federal Lifeline benefit.
Sprint CorporationFormer American telecommunications companySprint Corporation was an American telecommunicationscompany. Before being acquired by T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 million customers as of June 30, 2019.
T-Mobile USAmerican telecommunications companyT-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Its majority shareholder and namesake is the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile is the second largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 140 million subscribers as of September 30, 2025. The company was founded in 1994 by John W. Stanton of the Western Wireless Corporation as VoiceStream Wireless.
EchoStarEchoStar Corporation is an American telecommunications company, specializing in satellite communication, wireless telecommunications, and internet services. Echostar also provides multichannel video programming and mobile services through its subsidiaries: Dish Network, Boost Mobile, Sling TV, EchoStar Mobile, and Hughes Network Systems. Originally establishing the Dish Network brand name in 1996, EchoStar later acquired Dish as a wholly owned subsidiary in 2023.
Mobile virtual network operatorA mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a mobile telephony service provider that does not own the cellular network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers. An MVNO enters into a business agreement with a mobile network operator (MNO) to obtain bulk access to network services at wholesale rates, then sets retail prices independently. Both MVNOs and MNOs are mobile phone operators.
Mobile network operatorA mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a mobile network provider, mobile network carrier, mobile, wireless service provider, wireless carrier, wireless operator, wireless telco, or cellular company, is a telecommunications service provider that sells, delivers and maintains mobile number services to customers.
Dish NetworkDISH Network LLC, often referred to as Dish, an abbreviation for Digital Sky Highway, formerly EchoStar Communications Corporation and DISH Network Corporation, is an American provider of satellite television and IPTV services and wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. Its primary competitor is DirecTV. The company operates 4 office locations, 3 in Colorado, 1 in Arizona, including locations in Englewood (its headquarters), Denver, Littleton, and Phoenix.
NextelNextel Communications, Inc. was an American wireless service operator that merged with and ceased to exist as a subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, which would later be merged with T-Mobile US and folded into that company. Nextel in Brazil, and formerly in Argentina, Chile, Peru, the Philippines, and Mexico, was part of NII Holdings, which was a stand-alone, publicly traded company not owned by Sprint Corporation that went out of business in 2020.
5G NR5G NR (5GNew Radio) is a radio access technology (RAT) developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for the 5G (fifth generation) mobile network. It was designed to be the global standard for the air interface of 5G networks. It is based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), as is the 4G (fourth generation) long-term evolution (LTE) standard. The 3GPP specification 38 series provides the technical details behind 5G NR, the successor of LTE.SubsidiaryA subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company.
Trade nameA trade name, also known as a trading name, business name or operating name, is a pseudonym used by companies and other organizations that do not operate under their registered legal name. Registering the trade name with a relevant government body is often required. In a number of countries, the phrase "trading as" (abbreviated to t/a) is used to designate a trade name.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.