Charter and Comcast will use the T-Mobile network to provide services to business customers nationwide under a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement the three companies announced this week.
The MVNO will launch next year. The services will be branded as Spectrum Mobile for Business and Comcast Business Mobile, respectively. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The MVNO Charter and Comcast operates for residential and business customers will continue.
“This partnership complements what our T-Mobile for Business group already offers and expands the reach of T-Mobile’s network to even more business customers beyond those we currently serve,” T-Mobile Executive Vice President and Chief Product and Digital Officer Omar Tazi said in a press release about the partnership with Charter and Comcast.
“This is truly a win-win as Charter and Comcast Business customers are benefitting from T-Mobile’s advanced network and T-Mobile gains incremental value from the unique business segment that our partners serve today with broadband.”
Charter and Comcast said in the spring that they will offer emergency satellite-to-cellphone service for Samsung Galaxy S25 and the Google Pixel 9 phones and that they expected to add SMS text messaging in the weeks after the March announcement. The service will be offered at no additional charge. T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon had previously announced similar services.
T-Mobile scored well in the Ookla Speedtest Connectivity Report released this week. The carrier was rated as having the best mobile network for the first half of the year when all technologies are considered.
Charter and Comcast — along with Broadcom — entered into an agreement for unified DOCSIS chipsets for network nodes, smart amps, and cable modems. The announcement was made last September.
The press release said that the chips would provide speeds as fast as 25 Gbps over existing networks. They will support mid-split and high-split configurations and cover both the extended spectrum (ESD) and full duplex (FDX) approaches.
