T-Mobile today announced a MetroPCS rebrand. The carrier’s prepaid unit will now be known as Metro by T-Mobile. T-Mobile also announced two new prepaid unlimited plans for the Metro service, with pricing beginning at $50 a month. The $50-a-month plan…
February 15, 2018 — BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–J.D. Power today announced that T-Mobile and MetroPCS (NASDAQ: TMUS) topped the lists of the 2018 J.D. Power U.S. Wireless Purchase Experience Studies for full-service and non-contract providers, respectively. T-Mobile swept every category in the full-service study, including…
Smartphone satisfaction is higher for owners who contract with full-service wireless carriers than it is for those who purchase wireless service on a non-contract basis, according to Vol. 2 of the J.D. Power 2016 Full-Service Smartphone Satisfaction Study. Satisfaction among…
T-Mobile has agreed to pay $48 million to settle an Open Internet investigation by the FCC into whether the company adequately disclosed speed and data restrictions for what the company called an “unlimited” mobile data plan. The T-Mobile Open Internet…
Bellevue, Washington — January 20, 2016 — Sprint’s ‘Biggest Deal in US Wireless History’ just got served. Today, MetroPCS took the wraps off ‘The Biggest Offer in Sprint’s History’ – a lighthearted poke at Sprint’s underwhelming ‘Biggest Deal in US…
January 21, 2015 — BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–T-Mobile’s (NYSE: TMUS) flagship prepaid brand is helping customers get more of what they want out of their wireless plan − more blazing-fast 4G LTE data. For a limited time, MetroPCS customers can upgrade…
Rumors continue to circle around the possibility of a Sprint and T-Mobile merger, accompanied with the usual speculation: How would such a merger benefit each company? What is its likelihood of gaining approval? How would the wireless market be impacted?…
BONN, GERMANY and BELLEVUE, WA – May 1, 2013 — Deutsche Telekom AG (XETRA: DTE; “Deutsche Telekom”) and T-Mobile US, Inc. today announced the completion of the combination of T-Mobile USA, Inc. and MetroPCS Communications, Inc., uniting two wireless innovators…
T-Mobile’s plan to merge with MetroPCS could be finalized “shortly after” a MetroPCS stockholder meeting scheduled for April 12, where the shareholders will vote on certain aspects of the proposed combination, the companies said today. The news comes on the…
BARCELONA, Spain – Feb. 26, 2013 — MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) and Jibe Mobile (www.jibemobile.com), the Silicon Valley cloud-based global communications provider, today announced that Jibe’s Global Communications Cloud will enable MetroPCS subscribers to connect with friends and family across…
DALLAS, Oct. 31, 2012 — Building on its foundation as the foremost innovator among 4GLTE wireless service providers, MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) today announced the world’s first commercial launch of Rich Communication Services (RCS) on a 4GLTE network. MetroPCS…
T-Mobile’s “definitive agreement” to merge with MetroPCS, announced today, will accelerate the company’s “challenger” strategy, the company said in a presentation to reporters this morning. The merged company, which will carry the T-Mobile name, will be the nation’s fourth largest…
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