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T-Mobile To Allow Multiple Numbers On A Single Phone
T-Mobile is beginning consumer trials of a new service that will allow customers to use their phone numbers on virtually any Internet-connected device, and...
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Keeping Current
Are T-Mobile And Sprint In Play?
Even before AT&T announced its planned acquisition of Time Warner, speculation has swirled around the possible purchases of the Nos. 3 and 4 mobile...
Keeping Current
Will Comcast Buy T-Mobile?
Comcast’s confirmation this week of its entry into mobile services next year has re-stoked speculation of a carrier acquisition down the road — and...
Keeping Current
T-Mobile Modifies New Subscriber Plan
Just days after announcing its controversial new One plan, which provides unlimited data on a sliding scale but with a few major catches, T-Mobile...
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T-Mobile Offering Low-Priced, Unlimited LTE For Multiple Lines
T-Mobile is making permanent a fleeting family-plan promotion from earlier this year: four lines with unlimited talk, text and high-speed 4G LTE data for...
Keeping Current
T-Mobile Will Operate 13,000 Stores By Year’s End
Senior T-Mobile execs said the Magenta carrier will open 400 more T-Mobile stores, for a total of 4,000, and will expand its prepaid MetroPCS...
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T-Mobile Trumps Competitors At GOP Convention
T-Mobile said it mustered the fastest data speeds at last week’s Republican National Convention (RNC), beating out archrival Verizon Wireless by nearly 50 percent....
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T-Mobile Techs Up MLB’s All-Star Home Run Derby
T-Mobile is swinging for the fences at this year’s MLB All-Star Home Run Derby. The un-carrier is the official sponsor of the T-Mobile Home...
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T-Mobile, Consumer Cellular Lead In Customer Satisfaction
T-Mobile subscribers are more satisfied with their wireless service than subscribers of the three other national carriers, and Consumer Cellular is tops among non-contract...
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T-Mobile’s Legere Plays Santa: Giving Stock, Pizza & More To Subscribers
T-Mobile is giving away free T-Mobile stock shares and weekly gifts such as a free Domino’s pizza and a free Vudu movie to subscribers...
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Hey Verizon, Can You Hear Sprint Now?
Paul Marcarelli, who once appeared as the “test man” in Verizon commercials, has begun appearing in Sprint commercials to promote Sprint’s improved reliability and...
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T-Mobile Keeps On Bingeing, Adds More Video Services
T-Mobile expanded its Binge On video-streaming program for the fifth time since its November launch, enabling consumers to stream video from more than 80...
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T-Mobile Makes Cuban Connection; Planning Next ‘Un-Carrier’ Event
T-Mobile, which recently announced plans to open 1,400 more retail stores this year, is on the move again as it paves the way for...
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T-Mobile Opening Retail Stores At A Furious Clip
T-Mobile, the country’s fastest-growing mobile carrier, will open about 1,400 more retail stores this year to keep pace with its expanding network footprint. On...
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Cricket Leaps After T-Mobile Users With $100 Credit
Cricket Wireless hopes to steal subscribers from T-Mobile with a $100 bill credit for T-Mobile subscribers who switch and with a sharply priced single-line...
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T-Mobile’s Postpaid-Sales Pilot Ends At Walmart
Walmart halted a six-month pilot of T-Mobile postpaid-service sales at approximately 600 Walmart stores, Wave7 Research reported. The exit follows the scaling back of...
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T-Mobile: Keep On Bingeing
T-Mobile added six more music-streaming services to its Music Freedom program and 10 more video-streaming services to its Binge On program. A total of...
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Here’s How Much Time We Spend Streaming Video On Smartphones
More than 80 percent of all smartphone owners are streaming video, but people ages 25 and under spend more than twice the amount of...
Industry
FCC Unveils Wireless Auction Participants
The FCC has released the list of 104 applicants to its forward auction, which are the wireless companies and others who who applied to...
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T-Mobile’s Binge On Adds YouTube, Google Play Movies, Others Video Services
T-Mobile expanded its Binge On video-streaming program to include Google’s YouTube, Google Play Movies and seven other services to bring the total count of...
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MWC16: 5G Cellular Speeds Along, Verizon Targets 2017
5G wireless is competing with smartphone introductions for the wireless spotlight at Mobile World Congress, where the wireless industry talked up visions of 25Gbps...
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Which Wireless Providers Offer Best Purchase Experience?
The wireless purchase experience through carrier channels hit a record high in the latest J.D. Power survey, with AT&T taking the top spot among...
Financial
T-Mobile Leads In Q4 Postpaid Phone Gains
T-Mobile is successfully balancing subscriber growth with profitability, T-Mobile president/CEO John Legere declared in releasing the carrier’s fourth-quarter financial results. The quarter ending December...
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AT&T Fighting Back To Reverse Postpaid Phone Losses
AT&T is getting tired of losing postpaid phone subscribers to other carriers and has joined its national rivals in offering consumers a monetary incentive...
Car Electronics
Sprint, Alcatel OneTouch Team For In-Car Wi-Fi Hot Spot
Sprint is turning cars into mobile hot spots with the launch of the Alcatel OneTouch Ride-fi, which plugs into a vehicle’s 12-volt power socket....
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Sprint Keeps The Rate Cuts Coming
Sprint is pressing down harder on the rate-cut gas pedal. For the second time, the carrier is extending a promotion offering 50 percent off...
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Everybody’s Doing It: How People Use Their Smartphones
Smartphones owners can’t keep their content on their phone, a Parks Associates survey of broadband households found. Thirty-five percent of smartphone owners stream music...
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Windows Mobile 10 Notches A Win At T-Mobile
Windows Phone 10 notched a win with T-Mobile’s launch today of the carrier’s first Windows Mobile 10 smartphone, the $139 Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL....
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Drake To Sing Hotline Bling In T-Mobile Super Bowl Ad
He’s not Kim Kardashian or Tim Tebow, but rap/hip-hop singer Drake will sing in one of T-Mobile’s two Super Bowl ads. Drake’s commercial will...
Industry
Will T-Mobile’s Super Bowl Ad Beat Last Year’s Kim Kardashian Spot?
T-Mobile will be back with a Super Bowl ad for the third consecutive year, but this time it’s not telegraphing who will appear in...
Financial
Verizon Wireless: Competitors Aren’t Stealing Our Subscribers
Verizon Wireless pointed to a continued decline in its retail postpaid churn rate as evidence that cut-rate service plans and other marketing efforts by...
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AT&T Loses, 3 Rivals Gain In Q4 Cellular Subscriber Stakes
AT&T was the biggest and only loser among the four national cellular carriers in the fourth quarter, when the company’s cellphone subscriber base shrank...
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T-Mobile Prices BlackBerry’s Priv Android Phone
T-Mobile priced Blackberry’s first Android phone, the Priv slider, at $719, or $34/month for 18 months when it becomes available January 26 through T-Mobile-branded...
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AT&T Brings Back Unlimited-Data Plan
AT&T dropped unlimited-data plans in 2010, but the carrier is bringing them back, though only to current and new subscribers to its U-verse and...
Blogs
T-Mobile’s Legere: What’s Next In Wireless
T-Mobile president/CEO John Legere was seldom at a loss for words in 2015, and he isn’t about to change now. In a lengthy end-of-the-year...
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T-Mobile Targets Verizon With Free Hulu Promotion
T-Mobile launched another promotion to steal subscribers from other carriers, this time offering Verizon subscribers a free one-year Hulu subscription if they switch between...
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T-Mobile Expands Music Freedom Streaming
T-Mobile added 11 new music-streaming services to its Music Freedom program – including SomaFM, Spinrilla, and TuneIn Premium. That brings to 44 the number...
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T-Mobile To Gain Q4 Share, Says Strategy Analytics
T-Mobile will maintain its “Un-carrier momentum” and gain market share in the fourth quarter, thanks to a series of initiatives that include its Binge...
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AT&T Launches Video Calling, Advanced Messaging
AT&T joined T-Mobile in launching launched advanced messaging service and video calling as part of a rollout of LTE Rich Communications Services (RCS). AT&T’s...
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FCC’s Wheeler Says Binge-On, T-Mobile
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler appeared to endorse T-Mobile’s new Binge On free video-streaming plan today, calling it “highly innovative and highly...
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MetroPCS Adopts T-Mobile’s Uncarrier Audio/Video Strategies
T-Mobile is bringing some if its latest uncarrier initiatives to its MetroPCS prepaid brand to stimulate music and video consumption and give the brand...
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T-Mobile Offers Free Video Streams, Doubles LTE Data Buckets
T-Mobile took aim at the data overages charged by rivals AT&T and Verizon, launching an Uncarrier 10 initiative that lets many subscribers stream DVD-quality...