Yahoo reports: T-Mobile will likely start carrying the iPhone next year after its parent company,Deutsche Telekom, said it has reached a new deal with Apple. T-Mobile USA had been the lone iPhone-less carrier among the four national wireless companies in the U.S. Although it has been possible to use iPhones on T-Mobile networks, customers had to provide the […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Comments Off on T-Mobile admits lack of iPhone causes customer churn, but still not keen on carrying it
T-Mobile continues to lose customers and the head honchos there aren’t shy about admitting that its largely due to the fact that they don’t carry the iPhone. During the Morgan Stanley 12th Annual Technology, Media & Telecoms Conference in Barcelona, Spain, T-Mobile USA COO Jim Alling explained, “Make no mistake about it: We would love to carry […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Comments Off on How many iPhones are running on T-Mobile? About a million
Make no mistake about it – T-Mobile desperately wants to carry the iPhone. Want proof? Look no further than this past February released its earnings from the fourth quarter of 2011. In that quarter, the carrier reported losing over 800,000 subscribers during the last 3 months of 2011. At the time, T-Mobile attributed the mass […]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 9, 2012
Comments Off on T-Mobile testing iPhone compatible 3G network; iPhone announcement looming?
Of all the major cell carriers in the US, T-Mobile is now the only one that doesn’t carry the iPhone. And make no mistake about it, it’s having an adverse affect on T-Mobile’s bottom line. A few months ago, T-Mobile released their earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 and disclosed that they had lost […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Despite seemingly credible reports that T-Mobile would get the iPhone 4S, T-Mobile today remains the only major US carrier without Apple’s heralded smartphone. And T-Mobile will be the first to admit that it has had an effect on their bottom line. Just a few weeks ago, T-Mobile released their earnings report for Q4 2012 and […]
Continue reading...Monday, February 27, 2012
Comments Off on T-Mobile blames the lack of the iPhone for customer defection
The power of the iPhone to attract new customers to a carrier is undeniable, and the lack thereof can also result in mass customer defection. Indeed, before Sprint began carrying the iPhone 4S this past October, CEO Dan Hesse said, point blanky, that the iPhone was the main reason Sprint subscribers were leaving for other […]
Continue reading...Monday, October 3, 2011
Comments Off on Judge Lucy Koh admits amicus curiae briefs from T-Mobile and Verizon into Apple/Samsung proceedings
Over the past two weeks, both Verizon and T-Mobile filed amicus curiae briefs with the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking to block Apple’s efforts to attain a preliminary injunction against Samsung’s lineup of 4G products.
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Comments Off on T-Mobile executive apologizes to subscribers for not carrying the iPhone
Unfortunately for T-Mobile users, they won’t be getting the iPhone in 2011. Despite rumors from a few months back pointing towards T-Mobile testing an iPhone on their network, T-Mobile CMO Cole Brodman allegedly told employees last week that the company wouldn’t be receiving the iPhone 5 before 2012. Now, in a much more public manner, […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Comments Off on T-Mobile won’t be carrying the iPhone 5 this year
TmoNews claims to have received the above image which purports to be an internal news posting from T-Mobile. The posting relays a message from Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman from a September 15th town hall meeting where Brodman claims that T-Mobile will not be carrying the iPhone 5 this year. Our business is working […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Comments Off on US seeks to block AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition; claims it will stifle competition and innovation
AT&T this past May decided to use some of their iPhone profits and acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. Should the deal approve regulative scrutiny, AT&T would leapfrog Verizon and become the nation’s largest wireless carrier. But that regulatory approval hit a roadblock today as the U.S government filed suit today to block […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Comments Off on T-Mobile will launch the iPhone 5 this October alongside Spring, AT&T and Verizon
Following yesterday’s reports that the iPhone 5 was coming to Sprint, a new report claims that T-Mobile will be getting the iPhone treatment as well this Fall. This of course shouldn’t be all that surprising in light of spy shots that emerged this past April depicting an iPhone running in test-mode on T-Mobile’s 3G network. […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Comments Off on Analyst Chris Larsen writes that iPhone 5 coming to both Sprint and T-Mobile
Just when I thought Gene Muster was the only analyst over at Piper Jaffray comes a new report from analyst Chris Larsen who writes that the next-gen iPhone (whether it’s called the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5) will run on both Sprint and T-Mobile. “While we remain uncertain regarding the next-generation iPhone’s specs and features,” […]
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
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