T-Mobile has reportedly laid off an unspecified number of Sprint employees, just two months after the $26 billion merger between the nation’s third and fourth-largest wireless carriers.
TechCrunch reported Tuesday that T-Mobile notified “hundreds” of Sprint employees that they were being let go. We’ve reached out to T-Mobile for more details.
T-Mobile previously said the merger, which received intense antitrust scrutiny, would “create jobs from day one.”
“This merger is all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs, and the New T-Mobile will be jobs-positive from Day One and every day thereafter,” former CEO John Legere wrote in a 2019 blog post.
T-Mobile suffered an outage Monday affecting voice and text service for customers across the country.
Update, 2:50 p.m PT: T-Mobile issued a statement, noting that some employees will be asked to “consider a career change inside the company, and others will be supported in their efforts to find a new position outside the company.” T-Mobile said it is adding 5,000 new positions over the next year.
