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 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 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]
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]
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]
Yesterday T-Mobile suffered a pretty serious network outage, and now the carrier has shed a bit more light on exactly what happened. Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s president of technology, explains that the event that triggered the outage was a leased fiber circuit failure from a third-party provider in the Southeast. That’s the part of the country where we … [read full article]
One day after T-Mobile suffered a 12-hour nationwide outage, some more bad news regarding the carrier has come out. T-Mobile has reportedly laid off hundreds of Sprint employees this week. TechCrunch got hold of audio from a conference call hosted by T-Mobile vice president James Kirby in which he told hundreds of Sprint workers that they were being laid off. While it’s unclear exactly … [read full article]
T-Mobile suffered a major nationwide outage today that’s still affecting some customers hours after it began. And now the FCC Chairman says he’s going to look into what’s happened. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced tonight that the FCC is launching an investigation into today’s T-Mobile network outage. “The T-Mobile network outage is unacceptable,” Pai tweeted. “The FCC is launching an investigation. We’re demanding answers — and so … [read full article]
Ever since T-Mobile closed its merger with Sprint back in April, there have been lots of Sprint customers wondering when they’d get to start accessing T-Mobile Tuesdays’ gifts and deals. A new leak hints that it could happen soon. An internal document shared to the Sprint subreddit shows that T-Mobile employees are starting training to help them be “ready when legacy Sprint customers are eligible to participate” … [read full article]
If you’re having some issues with your T-Mobile service today, you’re not the only one. Reports are pouring in from T-Mo customers who say they’ve got no service this afternoon. Most of the problems seem to be happening in the Southeastern US, with T-Mobile subscribers in places like Atlanta, GA; Raleigh, NC; Orlando, FL; Winston-Salem, NC; Birmingham, AL; Pelion, SC; and many others reporting issues with the network. … [read full article]
