T-Mobile and Sprint are speaking President Donald Trump’s language. The two companies are pitching their merger as a pro-consumer deal that will create domestic jobs and help America compete with… Read More
T-Mobile CEO John Legere bleeds magenta, and the trademark color of the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier won’t be going anywhere if its mega merger with Sprint goes through. At least… Read More
The Federal Communications Commission and T-Mobile agreed to a $40 million settlement after an investigation revealed the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier played a fake ring tone on “hundreds of millions… Read More
A month after T-Mobile and Sprint called off merger talks, Bellevue-based T-Mobile announced that its board has authorized a plan to repurchase up to $1.5 billion of the company’s common… Read More
Want to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A research team led by UW’s Shyam Gollakota has demonstrated a… Read More
T-Mobile US added another 1.3 million new customers in the third quarter, its 18th straight period with more than 1 million net customer additions, bringing its total to more 70… Read More
Researchers at the University of Washington have been working for years on a radio backscatter system that can monitor ultra-low-power sensors wirelessly, and now they’ve fine-tuned the system to pick… Read More
Get ready to see more 564s in Washington. T-Mobile is notifying customers that the new area code will be rolling out in Western Washington state starting July 29. The new… Read More
T-Mobile is delaying annual salary increases for employees from July 2017 to February 2018, offering a one-time $1,000 “celebratory” stock grant in the meantime as it transitions to new schedule… Read More
Rigado, a Portland company that provides wireless services for Internet of Things (IoT) companies, has secured $3.3 million in seed funding from Oregon Angel Fund, Rogue Ventures, and other investors.… Read More
Being served with papers has never been this fun. T-Mobile, ratcheting up its ongoing desire to harsh the mellow of fellow wireless companies, sent out a special packet in honor… Read More
T-Mobile customers can now get AppleCare Services included when they sign up for the Bellevue, Wash.-based carrier’s Premium Device Protection. When a T-Mobile customer buys a new iPhone or iPad… Read More
Verizon will be the latest wireless provider to pilot 5G this year. The company announced Wednesday a plan to rollout the next-generation network to select customers in 11 cities across the U.S.… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — 5G sounds cool. Who doesn’t want a faster Internet? But real-world problems — including safety, costs and permitting — face Washington state as the wireless industry gears up… Read More
Contact lenses and brain implants that can transmit data may sound like science-fiction gizmos but researchers at the University of Washington are turning them into science fact, thanks to a… Read More
What’s up with WhatsApp? With more than 1 billion users across the globe, the app is by far the world’s most popular messaging tool. WhatsApp allows users to send text messages,… Read More
John Legere, T-Mobile’s spirited, social media-loving CEO, now has his own official Twitter emoji. He’s the second person to ever receive his own icon on Twitter, after “Cool Pope” Francis. The… Read More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIeNrcGxvQ&feature=youtu.be Amazon isn’t the only Seattle tech company recruiting big names for its Super Bowl ads. T-Mobile previewed a commercial for the big game this morning, featuring Drake and his hit song… Read More
John Stanton helped shape the wireless industry as we know it, first as vice chairman at McCaw Cellular and then co-founder of Western Wireless. He later went on to create… Read More
T-Mobile added a net total of 2.1 million customers in the fourth quarter, growing to more than 63 million customers overall — still a distant third to industry giants AT&T and… Read More
T-Mobile says its push to attract more business customers is paying off, as the company is starting to see the same kind of traction in that segment as it has… Read More
It has been a little while since we’ve seen a classic rant by T-Mobile’s John Legere, the long-haired outspoken rebel CEO who is doing everything he can to shake up the… Read More
T-Mobile CEO John Legere continues to transform the wireless carrier, announcing today first quarter results that included a record-low churn rate of 1.3 percent, with 1.8 million net additions to its… Read More
It’s fun to watch the wireless carriers struggle to keep their prices sky-high while still dipping into the “low end” of the market. It’s quite a contorted two-step. It requires… Read More
How do AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile stack up? We’ve looked at their customer growth, and this week on the GeekWire Radio Show, we take a closer look at their network… Read More
T-Mobile this morning announced a new slate of budget-oriented prepaid wireless plans, starting at $40/month, for customers willing to give up frills such as tethering, data rollover, free international data… Read More
Sprint’s catchy promotion last month that offered to “Cut Your Bill in Half” was very effective in drawing new customers into its stores. A new report released today said visits to Sprint’s stores jumped seven times… Read More
One of the most notable new features of Apple’s iPad Air 2 wasn’t mentioned in the company’s official announcement yesterday, but it’s getting a lot of attention nonetheless. It’s called Apple SIM,… Read More
A endless list of companies — from wireless carriers and handset makers to tech giants as big as Google — have tried to muscle their way into the mobile payments market, by… Read More
A T-Mobile sale has appeared inevitable for almost a year, following constant rumors that it’s in talks with Sprint, and more recently, when a little-known French telecom company made an out-of-the-blue bid. But now,… Read More