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Enlarge / T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray details T-Mobile’s plans to build a nationwide 5G network. (credit: T-Mobile USA) One of the US’ most successful mobile broadband providers is acquiring a struggling, smaller competitor, but it needs government approval of the merger. To make their case, the merging companies tell regulators that they can’t fully upgrade […]
Enlarge (credit: T-Mobile) T-Mobile USA and Sprint today announced an agreement to merge, a deal that would combine the US mobile industry’s third and fourth biggest carriers to create a giant nearly as large as AT&T or Verizon Wireless. The all-stock merger deal would have T-Mobile acquire Sprint for $ 26 billion worth of stock, according […]
T-Mobile and Sprint have started and stopped merger talks so often that it’s easy to become jaded about the whole thing, but it now looks like they’re close to a deal — no, for real this time. Sources talking to CNBC, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal have all insisted that the two carriers are […]
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis US wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint are finalizing terms as they seek to sign a merger by Monday that could value Sprint at around $ 26 billion. The combined company, with more than 127 million customers, would have added clout to challenge industry leaders Verizon and AT&T. Among other things, the telecom giants are in […]
Enlarge / An Antminer S5. (credit: Bitmain) A New York City resident was ordered to turn off his bitcoin miner after the Federal Communications Commission discovered that it was interfering with T-Mobile’s wireless network. After receiving a complaint from T-Mobile about interference to its 700MHz LTE network in Brooklyn, New York, FCC agents in November […]
Committing to renewable energy may be a bit of a publicity stunt, but it’s one that’s good for the environment and has positive effects. Today, T-Mobile joined the ranks of companies that have made that pledge, committing to 100 percent renewable electricity by 2021. It also joined RE100, the global initiative of companies that have […]
BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. It hasn’t been smooth sailing for telecoms in recent years. Native voice and messaging services, which once accounted for the vast majority of telecoms’ subscriber revenue, are struggling to compete with over-the-top […]
BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. It hasn’t been smooth sailing for telecoms in recent years. Native voice and messaging services, which once accounted for the vast majority of telecoms’ subscriber revenue, are struggling to compete with over-the-top […]
Enlarge T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced today that the mobile phone operator intends to acquire TV service Layer3 TV and next year offer a TV service that lets you watch “what you want, when you want, where you want” without the “complete bullshit”—contracts, forced bundles, and promotional pricing that expires after a year—that typifies the […]
It used to be that getting one of Samsung’s toughened-up Active phones meant signing up with AT&T. What if you’d rather not switch carriers just to make sure your phone can survive a hiking trip without a case? As of now, you (probably) won’t have to make that choice. Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy […]
