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Note 19 - Subsequent Events	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements
Subsequent Events [Text Block]	1 9 . Subsequent Events On July 2, 2019, the Company, entered into a five -year wireless wholesale agreement (the “Verizon Agreement”) with Cellco Partnerships d/b/a Verizon Wireless (“Verizon”). The Verizon Agreement provides for Ting to purchase and resell wireless services on the Verizon mobile network in the United States with services expected to be operational by late 2019. The Verizon Agreement includes certain minimum spend requirements which increase annually throughout the five -year contract term. Concurrent with the Verizon Agreement, the Company notified T-Mobile that it does not intend to renew its wholesale services agreement dated December 8, 2014, as amended by a Third Amendment dated April 20, 2018 ( as amended, the “T-Mobile Agreement”). The T-Mobile Agreement expires on December 19, 2019. Under the terms of the T-Mobile Agreement, the Company has a twelve -month run-off period to migrate the customers on the T-Mobile network to another network. The Company will continue to have minimum spend requirements with T-Mobile through December 19, 2019 with current wholesale pricing remaining in effect during the run-off period in 2020. The Company expects to incur primarily marketing related costs to migrate Ting customers using the T-Mobile platform to one of the Company’s alternative platforms, now including Verizon. On May 31, 2019, the Company reached an agreement with STS Media Inc., an MVNO operator doing business as Freedom Pop and Unreal Mobile brands, acquiring the right to approximately 150,000 mobile subscribers on the Sprint network for a purchase price of $3.6 million.  The migration of these customers commenced in July 2019 with subscribers having the option to accept the Ting offering or cancel or port their service elsewhere. As a result, the actual number of subscribers that continue their service with Ting is expected to be a smaller portion of the initial acquired subscriber base.   As part of the agreement, the Company advanced $2.5 million to STS Media Inc. in the second quarter of 2019 with the residual payment to occur in the third quarter of 2019 upon commencement of the migration.

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The entire disclosure for significant events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through the date the financial statements were issued or the date the financial statements were available to be issued. Examples include: the sale of a capital stock issue, purchase of a business, settlement of litigation, catastrophic loss, significant foreign exchange rate changes, loans to insiders or affiliates, and transactions not in the ordinary course of business.

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