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Dish Network is apparently planning to use what’s left of Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar stores to sell phones to the users. Blockbuster has recently started selling phones on its website using the name “Blockbuster Mobile,” offering a number of different devices from few carriers, including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, Cricket, TracFone and NET10. And according to Bloomberg’s unnamed sources, some of these devices may end up in Blockbuster’s 850 retail locations.
Dish Network on its end has been acquiring wireless airwaves left and right, and is apparently preparing to launch its own mobile service. In the meantime, I guess their idea is to promote Blockbuster as place where you can buy phones.
And while we don’t have anything against new entrant to this space — quite the contrary — we do wonder whether Dish has a chance to compete with the big boys like AT&T and Verizon which operate some 4,000 stores across the country. What do you think?
[Via: Bloomberg]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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