Archive | 2014

Major fire at T-Mobile store in San Gabriel injures two firefighters

Thursday evening, in the 200 block of S. San Gabriel Boulevard, a team of firefighters were called out to deal with a “three-alarm” fire at a T-Mobile store. Flames reportedly reached around 20 feet in the air and spread quickly to nearby gift shop. Aerial video footage shows the roof of the store caving in as the rescue service do their utmost to deal with the blaze. Firefighters struggled to get to the source of the flames … [read full article]

T-Mobile takes on Tim Fisher as Director of Loss Prevention

Yesterday, T-Mobile announced that it has appointed Tim Fisher as its new Director of Loss Prevention. Previously, Fisher has held various positions at Best Buy in corporate, and in the field and has been in similar roles at Target. The news was originally reported by LP Magazine, information provided by Loss Prevention Recruiters. Official press release spiel: Tim joins T-Mobile after a successful … [read full article]

FCC a little more open to a Sprint, T-Mobile merger?

A report from the Wall Street Journal today states that some commissioners at the FCC aren’t totally against a deal between Sprint and T-Mobile. The deal would see the third and fourth most popular carriers in the States combine and create a much larger carrier, and one which could compete with Verizon and AT&T more effectively. As you’re all aware, in the past, … [read full article]

Univision and T-Mobile officially announce “Univision Mobile”

As we’ve heard a couple of times from our sources now, T-Mobile and Univision have announced a new prepaid MVNO dubbed “Univision Mobile”. It’ll launch on May 19th, exclusively at Walmart and independent dealer locations across the U.S, including Puerto Rico. “Univision Mobile’s services and features have been created to satisfy the needs of the U.S. Hispanic community,” said Kevin Conroy, President, Digital & Enterprise Development, … [read full article]

Univision and T-Mobile partnering to launch new MVNO?

Univision has been on something of a roll this past few days. In one major announcement, it’s teamed up with Simon Cowell’s SYCO Entertainment to discover the “Ultimate Latino Boyband” with a “La Banda”. It’s also hosted its Upfront conference. But we’ve just been told about another new initiative the company’s going to be launching within the next week. We’ve heard that the company is … [read full article]

Fastest Mobile Networks 2014 is happening, get testing your T-Mo phones with Sensorly

Every carrier likes to claim that it has the best network around. And John Legere likes to point out that most claims are based on old, paid-for “independent” testing, and that in real life use, T-Mobile has the fastest LTE network. Data from Ookla’s SpeedTest.net would suggest that Magenta users have it good, and it’s only going to get better. … [read full article]