Tag Archives: T-Mobile

T-Mobile customers can get free coffee next Tuesday

T-Mobile wants to buy you a cup of coffee next Tuesday. On Tuesday, March 3rd, T-Mobile customers can get a coffee from Panera Bread. There will be limited quantities available, though, so if you’d like a free coffee, you’ll want to be online for the “coffee drop” at 11:00 am PT/2:00 pm ET on Tuesday. Also coming next week is an extra 20% off everything from Banana Republic. This deal can be used with … [read full article]

T-Mobile raising Protection 360 device insurance prices in April

Heads up, Protection 360 subscribers, because the pricing for T-Mobile’s device protection program is going up. T-Mobile is raising the prices of some of its Protection 360 tiers on April 18, 2020. While the pricing of tiers 1 and 2 will stay the same, tiers 3 through 5 will each go up. Here’s what the new rates will look like: Tier 1: Current price is $7, updated price will be $7 Tier 2: Current price is … [read full article]

T-Mobile launches SyncUp Pets tracker

T-Mobile has been selling its SyncUp Drive for a few years now, giving you a device that can plug into your car and get diagnostic information, spit out a Wi-Fi signal, and track the location of your vehicle. Now T-Mo has released a SyncUp for pets, too. The SyncUp Pets is a small tracker that you can attach to a dog, cat, or other animal’s collar and keep track of its location. Using T-Mobile’s Narrowband IoT … [read full article]

T-Mobile’s free MLB.TV offer will return March 24th

With MLB Spring Training getting underway, many T-Mobile customers who are also baseball fans have been wondering if T-Mo will offer a free MLB.TV subscription to subscribers like it has for the past several years. Now we know the answer. T-Mobile customers will be able to get a free MLB.TV subscription on March 24th through T-Mobile Tuesdays. That date has been given by a couple of support reps using the official T-Mobile Help account on … [read full article]

T-Mobile says Galaxy S9 Android 10 update is rolling out, Galaxy S10 5G also updated

With today’s rollout of Android 10 to the T-Mobile Galaxy Note 9, some Galaxy S9 owners may be wondering where their update is. According to T-Mo, it’s already started going out. T-Mobile has updated its support pages to show that the Galaxy S9 and S9+ began receiving their Android 10 update yesterday, February 23rd. In addition to the bump to Android 10, the 1.9GB update brings the February 2020 security patches and removes the DIGITS built-in … [read full article]

T-Mobile Tuesdays to hand out inflatable neck pillows soon

T-Mo’s got another piece of T-Mobile Tuesdays swag coming soon that’ll be useful on your next flight. New photos sent to TmoNews show that T-Mobile will give out T-Mobile-Samsung inflatable neck pillows soon. When inflated, the pillow has a T-Mo logo on one arm and a Samsung logo on the other. The images don’t say exactly when T-Mobile will hand these inflatable pillows out to customers, but now that they’ve arrived in stores, they should … [read full article]

T-Mobile Galaxy Note 9 now being updated to Android 10

T-Mobile Galaxy Note 9 owners, your week is starting off with a bang. T-Mobile is now updating its Galaxy Note 9 to Android 10 with Samsung’s One UI 2 interface. The update is a biggie, coming in at 2062.99MB, so you may want to find a speedy Wi-Fi connection before starting the download. It’s version N960USQU3DTAA. As with other Android 10 updates for Samsung devices, this Note 9 update brings dark mode improvements like enhanced … [read full article]

T-Mobile LG G8 ThinQ getting its Android 10 update

LG G8 ThinQ owners, your Android 10 update has arrived. T-Mobile has begun pushing the Android 10 update to its LG G8, bumping it to version G820TM20d. The update is a biggie, coming in at 1532.8MB, so you may want to make sure you’re on a speedy connection before starting the download. According to LG, the update includes support for LG Pay, various bug fixes, and security and system improvements. The security patch level is January … [read full article]

T-Mobile EVP David Carey leaving company, Abdul Saad promoted to CTO

T-Mobile has announced that it’s doing a bit of executive shuffling. T-Mobile says in a filing with the SEC that David Carey, Executive Vice President of Corporate Services, will soon leave the company. According to the filing, Carey (shown below, left) will exit some time between April 30th and July 1st. The filing goes on to say that Carey will provide consulting services to T-Mobile. Carey joins CFO Braxton Carter and CEO John Legere as the latest … [read full article]

T-Mobile argues that FCC made testing errors in report on rural coverage

Back in December, the FCC said that it had conducted drive tests of T-Mobile, Verizon, and U.S. Cellular’s networks and found that the carriers had misrepresented their rural coverage. The FCC said that it won’t punish the carriers because they “did not find a sufficiently clear violation”, but T-Mobile has still taken the time to respond to the FCC’s report. T-Mobile said in a filing this week that FCC’s original report used a “flawed verification … [read full article]