Just live chatted with Microsoft store that the Lumia 640 is missing from the store, what happened?

[Windows Central Question]

Just live chatted with Microsoft store that the Lumia 640 is missing from the store

They pulled the Lumia 640 from the MS store and T-Mobile won't be primary on this.
Please find out what happened.

 

[RumoredNow]

Re: Just live chatted with Microsoft store that the Lumia 640 is missing from the store

Cricket has an exclusivity period before any other US carrier can have the device. Someone released it on the web as T-Mo supported prematurely.

 

[Ordeith]

Re: Just live chatted with Microsoft store that the Lumia 640 is missing from the store

Cricket has an exclusivity period before any other US carrier can have the device. Someone released it on the web as T-Mo supported prematurely.

If that were true you would think cricket would be promoting the 640 during their exclusivity period instead of doing everything they can to push their low end Android handsets.