Dish also operates DISH Wireless LLC to offer mobile wireless service, currently offering prepaid service to 9.3 million customers with the purchase of Boost Mobile on July 1, 2020 through the Boost brand.[7][8] DISH intends to offer postpaid service as well in the future. The company has approximately 16,000 employees. Like many other providers, DISH is being affected by the cord-cutting trend where people are shifting towards internet based streaming television.[9][10][11] Ending 2018, DISH lost 381,000 subscribers in its Q4 2018.[12] DISH had 9.9 million satellite subscribers, down from 11 million year the previous year,[9] and 14 million subscribers in 2014.[13] Its primary competitors are AT&T's satellite service known as DirecTV and cable television providers.