Archive | June, 2020

Neville Ray talks T-Mobile 5G and his network playbook

Neville Ray appeared on a Wells Fargo Virtual 5G Forum this week took the opportunity to talk a bit about T-Mobile’s network. First up, T-Mobile’s president of technology unsurprisingly touched a bit more on the major outage that T-Mo suffered this week. Ray reaffirmed that it was triggered by a fiber outage that then was compounted by a couple other issues, resulting in capacity issues in the … [read full article]

T-Mobile REVVL 4+ named in regulatory filings, TCL is the manufacturer

T-Mobile has launched 3 generations of own-brand REVVL phones to date, and new regulatory filings suggest that a 4th generation is in the works. A Bluetooth SIG filing has revealed that TCL is making a device called the “REVVL 4+”. There aren’t a ton of details about the REVVL 4+ revealed in the filing, but the device is listed as being an “LTE / UMTS / GSM mobile phone” with Bluetooth 5.0. There’s also an FCC filing … [read full article]

T-Mobile Tuesdays opens to Sprint customers next week, T-Mo promising big deals all summer

T-Mobile Tuesdays has been thanking T-Mo customers with deals and gifts for 4 years now, and next week Sprint customers will start getting thanked as well. Starting June 23, Sprint customers will gain access to T-Mobile Tuesdays. T-Mo is celebrating by going bigger with its deals all summer, including food deals every week throughout the summer from places like Burger King, Popeyes, … [read full article]

Dish Network will buy Boost Mobile from T-Mobile on July 1

Following recent rumors that suggested that Dish Network may have been trying to negotiate better terms for itself in its purchase of Boost Mobile from T-Mobile, it’s been revealed that the deal will finally happen in two weeks. Dish Network and T-Mobile have confirmed in filings with the SEC that Dish will close its purchase of Sprint’s prepaid businesses, including Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, … [read full article]

T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter will retire July 1, Peter Osvaldik named as successor

Another T-Mobile executive will soon exit the company. T-Mobile confirmed today that CFO Braxton Carter will retire on July 1, 2020. He won’t be completely done with T-Mo after that date, though, because he’ll be sticking with T-Mobile in a strategic advisory role for 3 months to ensure the transition to his successor goes smoothly. T-Mo then has the option to keep him … [read full article]