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T-Mobile buys Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal

5:20pm March 15, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said the telecom giant would use its size and resources to "supercharge" Mint, which is best known for ads starring the actor who is part owner of the smaller company.

U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers, including addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.

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T-Mobile says breach exposed personal data of 37 million customers

7:04am January 20, 2023

by The Associated Press

T-Mobile said data exposed to theft — based on its investigation to date — did not include passwords or PINs, bank account or credit card information, Social Security numbers or other government IDs.

Mobile says about 7.8 million of its current postpaid customer accounts' information and roughly 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with the company were involved in a recent data breach.

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A T-Mobile Breach Exposed Nearly 50 Million People's Personal Data

9:44am August 18, 2021

Names, Social Security numbers and driver's license information were compromised; phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords and financial information were not.

Conceptual illustration representing the new 5G mobile data network.

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Who Gets 5G — And Who Gets Left Behind — Has Some Worried About Digital Inequality

12:00pm February 25, 2020

by Paul Flahive

As wireless companies continue to roll out 5G — the next generation of wireless technology — advocates worry this latest high-speed update will widen the digital divide.

T-Mobile and Sprint stores in El Cerrito, Calif. The Department of Justice approved the $26 billion merger of the two wireless carriers.

T-Mobile And Sprint Merger Finally Wins Justice Department's Blessing

5:00pm July 26, 2019

by Yuki Noguchi

A deal years in the making is getting federal regulatory approval to move forward. The $26 billion merger is subject to court approval, and state attorneys general are seeking to block the deal.

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Monday that he endorses the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.

FCC Chairman Endorses T-Mobile Merger With Sprint

2:45pm May 20, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

"This is a unique opportunity to speed up the deployment of 5G throughout the United States and bring much faster mobile broadband to rural Americans," said chairman Ajit Pai.

Pedestrians walk past a T-Mobile store in New York City on Friday. Sprint and T-Mobile are seeking to merge, but the proposed deal sill requires regulatory approval.

T-Mobile, Sprint Announce A Plan For Merger

3:07pm April 29, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

The combined company would be called T-Mobile, and have a total value of $146 billion based on current stock prices. The deal, subject to regulatory review, comes after years of failed merger talks.

A billboard advertising T-Mobile stands over Hialeah, Fla., last year.

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T-Mobile Fined $40M Over 'False Ring Tones' That Masked Failed Calls

4:59pm April 17, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The Federal Communications Commission says the company had inserted such sounds in "hundreds of millions of calls." But not every FCC commissioner felt the settlement with T-Mobile was penalty enough.

Had T-Mobile and Sprint completed a merger, Reuters says the new company would have claimed more than 130 million subscribers.

Potential T-Mobile And Sprint Merger Falls Apart

5:16pm November 04, 2017

by Chris Benderev

The third- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless carriers had been in talks for a long time but announced Saturday that they could not agree on mutually beneficial terms.

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T-Mobile, Sprint Vie For New Customers With Unlimited Data Plans

2:39pm August 18, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

It's a bit of a renaissance for unlimited plans, which went all but extinct in recent years. But do people really need that much data?