T-Mobile

In a television interview on Monday night, Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son said he wants to buy smaller wireless carrier T-Mobile US and plans to press forward despite likely opposition from regulators. Son told Charlie Rose of PBS that a combination of the nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless companies would enable Sprint to better compete with Continue Reading →

Two major studies released this week of the nation’s largest wireless networks put Verizon Wireless on top in nearly every technical network measurement, with AT&T close behind and Sprint and T-Mobile trailing. The studies by JDPower and RootMetrics point to the nationwide wireless dominance of Verizon and AT&T, which serve a combined two-thirds of all Continue Reading →

T-Mobile said late Friday that it is doubling the amount of data included in its basic plan and also including international text messaging at no added cost. It’s $50-per-month Simple Value plan will now come with 1GB of high-speed data, up from 500MB, with some other plans also getting a boost. However, T-Mobile did hike Continue Reading →

T-Mobile incurred the wrath of BlackBerry CEO John Chen and some of the phone’s loyalists by making an upgrade offer encouraging BlackBerry owners to trade in for a new iPhone. Aiming to make amends — and really calling the BlackBerry bluff — T-Mobile launched an upgrade offer that gave BlackBerry owners the choice of sticking Continue Reading →

T-Mobile’s aggressive “Un-Carrier” promotion plan resulted in a net gain of 1.6 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, but losses widened to $20 million as a result of the company’s aggressive marketing tactics. The company posted a net loss of $0.03 a share on revenue of $6.83 billion, compared to analyst expectations, on average, of Continue Reading →

Since 2007, Wi-Fi calling has been a major feature that’s helped T-Mobile stand out from its larger carrier rivals in the US. Starting Friday, however, Sprint will be offering the convenient perk to subscribers nationwide. Wi-Fi calling is completely free and allows Sprint customers to make voice calls and send texts over any Wi-Fi network. Continue Reading →

BlackBerry users on T-Mobile who want to upgrade will now receive $250 towards any BlackBerry phone, or $200 toward any other manufacturer’s phone in T-Mobile stores. The deal was introduced after a recent furor between BlackBerry and T-Mobile in which the carrier sent out an email to its BlackBerry-using customers that urged them to upgrade Continue Reading →

Looks like T-Mobile’s plans for February 23rd are going to be a big more major than we’d anticipated. We’ve already heard of the companies plan to introduce a new Stateside International Talk and Text feature on that day. Today, we’ve heard of further plans to make JUMP! more appealing to customers on the same day. Continue Reading →

Sprint may be second-guessing its push to acquire T-Mobile after encountering stiff resistance from regulators. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported that Sprint officials were regrouping after recently meeting with the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC. Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son and CEO Dan Hesse had hoped to win Continue Reading →

AT&T is no longer offering to pay hundreds of dollars to T-Mobile customers willing to switch to its network. Since Jan. 3, AT&T had been giving up to $450 in credit to T-Mobile customers, a preemptive strike made days before T-Mobile launched its own campaign aimed at switchers. AT&T confirmed to Re/code on Monday that Continue Reading →