For 1,900 T-Mobile call center workers, the weekend is going to be a lot more depressing and…jobless. Reuters has confirmed that rumors from earlier in the day foretelling of a T-Mobile layoff were true. While 1,900 is only ~5% of T-Mobile’s full workforce, it’s a depressing situation for those involved no matter how you look at it. But it’s not all fire and brimstone. T-Mobile is reportedly offering the 1,900 now jobless employees a chance to...
T-Mobile has long been a distant fourth place competitor in the U.S. cellar market. While their pricing and various contracts have often trounced the competition (rather easily I’d add), the spotty coverage and generally less speedy (until recently) network has caused more and more people to look at AT&T, Sprint and Verizon for their data-loving tasks. Complicating T-Mobile’s stigma of an “underdog” was illustrated by their resistance to pursue...
T-Mobile has long been the underdog, the ugly step child, the black sheep of the cellular world. Their coverage isn’t all that great outside of cities and speeds are pretty lackluster too. An acquisition with AT&T was supposed to change that. Thankfully it fell through. But now T-Mobile is facing what to do moving forward. Their 3 biggest competitors either already have a robust LTE network in place (Verizon) or are in the beginning stages of rollout (Sprint)....
Excited for the latest BlackBerry 7 hardware? *Crickets* Well, if you’re one of the few people that are, BlackBerry is poised to wow you come March 15th with some new hardware for T-Mobile users. The invite sent out above doesn’t detail anything more than the event’s exclusive client list, but does elude “what’s next”. The “7″ logo and previous comments from RIM saying that BlackBerry 10 devices are at least 6 months away...
It looks like no amount of AT&T/T-Mobile lobbying will net them an easy victory in Washington this time around. Reuters is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder has told lawmakers the “people in the antitrust division are committed to seeing this through” — “this” of course being the ongoing AT&T/T-Mobile merger in the U.S. That’s a big win for U.S. cellular customers and not so much for T-Mobile/AT&T shareholders...
