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T-Mobile Tuesdays gifts will include free T-Mo umbrella, Vudu rental, and more next week

Next week’s T-Mobile Tuesday is bringing with it another special piece of T-Mo-branded merchandise. For the March 20 edition of T-Mobile Tuesdays, T-Mobile customers can score a free umbrella. The umbrella features T-Mobile Tuesdays branding and magenta and black panels. Also included in next week’s gifts is a $20 dining credit for Dining Advantage, a service that offers 100,000 deals to local and national restaurants. You can browse through all the deals offered and when … [read full article]

T-Mobile Galaxy S9 and S9+ receiving software update

The Galaxy S9 and S9+ have started hitting T-Mobile customers’ doorsteps ahead of the official launch this Friday, and it looks the first softaware update is also going out early. T-Mobile Galaxy S9 and S9+ owners are now receiving a software update. Screenshots shared by users on Reddit show that the 259.99MB update includes stability improvements for the Face Unlock and Camera features. T-Mo hasn’t posted information for these updates on its Galaxy S9 … [read full article]

T-Mobile partners with KXAS-TV to speed up 600MHz repack in North Texas

T-Mobile has announced that it’s teaming up with NBC’s KXAS-TV to speed up a 600MHz repack, much like it did with Fox’s WWOR in New York City last year. T-Mo is working with NBC 5/KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas to more quickly repack the stations 600MHz spectrum in North Texas and surrounding areas. With this partnership, KXAS-TV will move to its new frequency in late May 2018, well ahead of the FCC’s June 21, 2019 … [read full article]

T-Mobile meets with FCC Chairman to push for broader mmWave spectrum auction

Earlier this year, T-Mobile urged the FCC to hold a millimeter wave (mmWave) auction in 2018. Now another filing has revealed that T-Mobile recently continued its push during a meeting with the FCC Chairman. T-Mobile met with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on March 7 to, among other things, talk about an expanded mmWave auction. The meeting included T-Mobile COO Mike Sievert, T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray, T-Mobile Puerto Rico VP and GM Jorge Martel, and T-Mobile VP … [read full article]

T-Mobile to begin rolling out RCS Universal Profile updates in Q2 2018

After launching Rich Communication Services (RCS) with its Advanced Messaging feature back in 2015, T-Mobile today spilled some details on its upcoming RCS plans. T-Mobile has announced plans to support the GSMA Universal Profile industry standard. Software updates will begin to go out to T-Mo customer starting in Q2 2018. RCS messaging offers several improvements over standard text messaging, including read receipts, group chat features, and messages longer than 160 characters. Universal Profile is an … [read full article]

Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ pre-order units begin arriving for T-Mobile customers

T-Mobile has a history of sending out pre-orders of major flagship smartphones ahead of their official release dates. It did this with the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, with the Galaxy S8 and S8+, and with the Galaxy Note 8, and now it’s happening with the Galaxy S9 and S9+, too. Customers who pre-ordered a Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ are receiving their phones today. The devices have already hit the doorsteps of TmoNews … [read full article]

Moto E4 now available from T-Mobile

After launching at MetroPCS back in mid-2017, the Moto E4 is now available from T-Mobile as well. The Moto E4 can be purchased from T-Mobile for $7 down and $7 per month for 24 months. The full retail price of the phone is $175. As its price suggests, the Moto E4 is an entry-level phone that includes a 5-inch 1280×720 display, quad-core Snapdragon 417 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a microSD card … [read full article]

LG K30 and LG Aristo 2 Plus reportedly coming to T-Mobile

According to a new report, LG’s got a couple of new smartphones headed to T-Mobile. The LG K30 and LG Aristo 2 Plus will be sold by T-Mobile, says well-known leaker Evan Blass. No details on the launch dates or pricing of these two devices have been revealed. The spec details for these two upcoming phones are unclear. Both the LG K20 Plus and LG Aristo being sold by T-Mobile are entry-level devices, … [read full article]

T-Mobile CTO says more low-band LTE upgrades have been rolled out

T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray made a couple of announcements recently that detail where T-Mo has been making network improvements, and today Ray dropped another bit of good news. Ray says that T-Mobile has added low-band LTE to hundreds of cell sites in two weeks. Attached to his tweet is a GIF that names cities where these network improvements have taken place. You can check out the full list cities that got low-band coverage improvements at … [read full article]

T-Mobile in a position to grow its market share with millennials, says report

According to a new survey, T-Mobile could see major gains in acquiring millennial customers. Research firm Macquarie Capital says that it expects T-Mobile to “gain the bulk of industry net adds in ’18+”. The firm adds that it found price and value to be most important among consumers of all ages, which it believes is a benefit of T-Mobile. In Macquarie Capital’s survey, 46 percent of customers used Verizon while 22 percent use T-Mobile, 19 percent … [read full article]

T-Mobile One Unlimited 55+ plan price increase coming next week

A T-Mobile plan pricing increase is coming next week. T-Mobile says that the Unlimited 55+ plan will cost $70 per month for new customers starting March 15. That price is $10 more than the Unlimited 55+ plan currently costs. The $70 pricing will include taxes and fees and requires autopay. While the price will be going up, the Unlimited 55+ plan will continue to include two lines of unlimited talk, text, and 4G LTE smartphone … [read full article]

T-Mobile CFO says spectrum acquisitions worth ‘a few billion dollars’ are coming

Last year, T-Mobile made news when it dropped $8 billion on 600MHz spectrum in an FCC auction. Now one T-Mo executive says that the carrier will likely spend a few billion more for additional spectrum in the near future. Speaking at an investor event this week, T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter said that T-Mo will likely receive a “massive explosion in cash” over the next 7 to 8 years due to the tax reform legislation that … [read full article]