The field is set. T-Mobile has narrowed this year’s Friday Night 5G Lights contest down to 40 small-town high schools, and now it’s up to fans to decide who moves on. T-Mobile announced the finalists in its newsroom. The 40 schools are split into four divisions, West, Midwest, South, and East, with 10 schools in each. Just making the cut is … [read full article]
Dierks, Arkansas has fewer than 900 residents, but it just proved that population size means nothing when a whole town rallies behind something, in this case, a $1 million high school football field upgrade from T-Mobile. As announced by T-Mobile, Dierks High School won last year’s Friday Night 5G Lights, T-Mobile’s annual competition that awards a $1 million field upgrade to one high school … [read full article]
T-Mobile is bringing back Friday Night 5G Lights for a third season, and this year the Un-carrier is putting more than $8.4 million in total prizes on the table for small-town high schools across the country — more than double what was up for grabs in previous years. The program, which celebrates hometown high school football programs in US towns with populations … [read full article]
T-Mobile just announced 25 more small towns will receive grants of up to $50,000 each to fund local improvement projects, pushing the carrier’s total investment in the Hometown Grants program past the $20 million mark since it launched in April 2021. The program has now reached 450 communities across 48 states and Puerto Rico, benefiting roughly 2.6 million people. The initiative has generated 179,000 volunteer … [read full article]
A tiny Arkansas town just proved that size doesn’t matter when it comes to community spirit. Dierks High School, representing a town of just 900 people, beat out more than 2,100 schools nationwide to win T-Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights competition and its grand prize: a $1 million stadium makeover. T-Mobile announced that the small farming community rallied together to secure nearly 2 million … [read full article]
A small high school in Oklahoma just scored big thanks to T-Mobile’s community outreach program. Inola High School, located in a town of less than 2,000 people, won the wireless carrier’s first-ever “Friday Night 5G Lights” competition, beating out nearly 1,750 schools nationwide. According to T-Mobile’s announcement, the victory earned Inola High School a complete stadium transformation that most schools can only dream of. … [read full article]
T-Mobile is turning up the heat on Friday nights with a new campaign that brings high school football and 5G together like never before. Starting this fall, the Un-carrier will launch a national “Friday Night 5G Lights” tour that showcases how its network powers the next generation of high school sports; on and off the field. The campaign, which will visit more than 25 schools across the U.S., is T-Mobile’s biggest 5G showcase yet for local communities. … [read full article]
