The Department of Justice has “grave concerns” concerning the upcoming shutdown of Sprint’s legacy CDMA community, in accordance with a recent letter noticed by Bloomberg, and is urging each Dish Network and T-Mobile to take “all appropriate steps” to cut back the impression on clients nonetheless counting on the community. Many of Dish’s Boost Mobile clients — which it acquired from T-Mobile as a situation of the Sprint merger — nonetheless depend on the older 3G community and stand to lose telephone service when the Un-carrier decommissions it on January 1st, 2022. It’s been a sore spot in more and more troubled relations between the 2 firms.

This July ninth letter from the DOJ was shared by Dish as a part of its second quarter monetary filings yesterday. It’s addressed to Dish Network and T-Mobile legal professionals, and it acknowledges that the community sundown might doubtlessly depart a major variety of Boost Mobile clients stranded with out telephone service. The DOJ reminds T-Mobile that it agreed to offer Dish “reasonable advance notice” of a legacy community shutdown, although it stops in need of condemning T-Mobile’s timeline as unreasonable. Essentially, the DOJ says it’ll want to attend and see how issues play out to be able to know whether or not the discover T-Mobile gave was cheap.

“The Division cannot yet determine whether the notice provided will have been reasonable for a January 1, 2022 CDMA shutdown in light of all relevant facts and circumstances since they have not all transpired. However, if DISH undertakes all reasonable efforts to transition its customers off the CDMA network and a substantial portion are still remaining at the end of the period, that fact may very well suggest that notice had not been sufficient.”

The DOJ doesn’t let Dish off the hook, both, and says the corporate can also be sure by the phrases of the merger settlement to make each effort emigrate Boost clients off the previous community.

“…any failure by DISH to pursue all available avenues to prevent a widespread loss of services to the customers it acquired pursuant to that Final Judgment could raise concerns regarding its own compliance.”

The letter wraps up with a tidy request to please simply determine it out, or else.

“The Division therefore expects both Parties to take all available steps to ensure the transition of Boost customers off the CDMA network prior to its shutdown. Should any conduct related to the CDMA network shutdown suggest that a violation of the Final Judgment will likely occur, the Division will act swiftly to pursue all remedies available to it.”

Meanwhile, the 2 firms don’t look like able to act cooperatively. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert revealed a weblog publish yesterday admonishing Dish for “dragging their feet in getting their customers upgraded to the superior 4G/5G world.” On a name yesterday with traders, Dish chairman Charlie Ergen sounded extra resigned when discussing the subject than he did a couple of months in the past when he in contrast T-Mobile to the Grinch, this time calling the corporate “sore winners.” He says that Dish is making all cheap efforts emigrate its clients, however he believes a “material amount” of them will stand to lose service on January 1st.