T-Mobile Cutting Another 900 Jobs in Wake of Failed AT&T Deal

CEO Philipp Humm notifies workers of another round of job cuts as the company looks to remake itself amid continued customer defections and a failed deal to sell itself to AT&T.
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T-Mobile, Rural Carrier Group Team Up to Help Fight Verizon’s SpectrumCo Deal

T-Mobile, Sprint a public interest group and an association of rural carriers are joining forces to encourage regulators to take a tough look at Verizon’s effort to purchase spectrum from several cable companies.
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T-Mobile CTO: Network Should be Ready for iPhone Users by Q4

While T-Mobile USA doesn’t expect to offer LTE service until next year, another part of its network modernization efforts should allow iPhones to run at full speed on its networks later this year.
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Google Expands Carrier Billing for Digital Content

Google said Wednesday that customers can now charge more types of Android content to their cellphone bill, including music, movies, books and apps. Google is partnered with a number of carriers globally, including T-Mobile in the U.S., with Sprint coming soon.

Deutsche Telekom Aims to Lookout for Mobile Users’ Security

T-Mobile’s parent company inks a deal with mobile security start-up Lookout to help protect its Android customers.
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Carly Dumps Her Pink Dresses, as T-Mobile Aims for an Image Makeover

The No. 4 U.S. carrier is looking to reboot itself after a year in which it failed to sell itself and lost customers. But can a new ad campaign offset the lack of an iPhone?
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Cellphone Unit Sales in First Quarter Were “Weakest in Years”

AT&T and Verizon are posting growth in subscribers, but expected declines at T-Mobile and Sprint may mean the number of postpaid customers actually declined for the first time ever.
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T-Mobile USA Eyes Tower Sales to Raise Cash

The company has reportedly hired an outside adviser to evaluate a sale of its 7,000 U.S. cell towers, a move that would help pay for the company’s expansion plans.
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AT&T Cries “We Told You So” on T-Mobile Layoffs

The company says T-Mobile’s move to close seven call centers show that the country would have been better off if regulators had allowed the deal to go through.
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T-Mobile USA to Cut 1,900 Jobs as It Consolidates Its Call Centers

The moves are just the first in what the company says are a series of restructuring efforts being made in the wake of its failed effort to sell itself to AT&T.
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AT&T Tweaks Its Org Chart