42 Facts About T-Mobile USA

T-Mobile USA US is the second-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with more than 110 million subscribers as of the end of Q2 2022.

T-Mobile USA, Inc was an operating entity of T-Mobile International AG, before becoming a direct subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG.

In March 2013, T-Mobile USA introduced a major overhaul of its plan structure, marketed by branding themselves as being "the Un-carrier".

The type of zero-rating that is offered by T-Mobile USA allows it to charge higher rates to third-parties, meaning that ISP can prioritize the company that pays a higher premium.

T-Mobile USA upgraded network equipment and back-haul capabilities to enable HSPA, and later HSPA+ and LTE services.

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T-Mobile USA had finished HSPA+ trials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had begun deploying HSPA+ across its network.

T-Mobile USA is currently planning to shut down its GSM network sometime in the future, but has yet to set a date.

Each license was individually bid upon, and T-Mobile USA was the winner in 120 license auctions, at an aggregate price of $4.

Examples include New York City, Chicago, and Boston where T-Mobile USA acquired one-third of the available spectrum, or San Francisco, Houston, and Miami where they acquired 45 percent of the available spectrum.

T-Mobile USA had hoped to have its network activated by mid-2007, but as of September 2007, the government users had not vacated the AWS band.

T-Mobile USA refers to its 700Mhz low-band network as 'Extended-range LTE' and claims it penetrates buildings and reaches out farther than its PCS and AWS only network.

In 2018 T-Mobile USA has stated they will not discontinue rollout and upgrades of LTE in favor of 5G.

T-Mobile USA stated that the same network will go live in New York, NY being the first city with all 3 parts of T-Mobile USA's "layer cake" strategy to 5G NR of having 3 separate bands on low, mid and high band frequencies.

T-Mobile USA intends to deploy this spectrum alongside its C-Band holdings in 2023.

T-Mobile USA announced a partnership with US Cellular in California, Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin to expand 4G LTE coverage.

T-Mobile USA has used the term "Hotspot" to represent various products and technologies.

T-Mobile USA included other messaging apps in addition to SMS texting being provided since September 2014.

T-Mobile USA has used the term to describe Wi-Fi Access Points that it sold to end users to expand their cell phone network to phones equipped to receive Wi-Fi using a VOIP-like technology.

T-Mobile USA's shares traded at over $62 per share and its market capitalization was valued at over US$58.

T-Mobile USA has discontinued the Magenta Plus plan but upgrades their Magenta plan by providing 100 GB of premium data and bumping the high-speed hotspot data to 5 GB without overall price change.

T-Mobile USA offers many customers Netflix on Us, which covers the cost of a standard Netflix subscription.

In March 2013, T-Mobile USA introduced a new streamlined plan, Simple Choice, for new customers.

T-Mobile USA network has carried Assurance Wireless since the 2020 Sprint merger.

T-Mobile USA would provide Visa card with banking features and a smartphone money management application with reduced-fee or zero-cost services for T-Mobile USA wireless customers.

In 2018, T-Mobile USA officially announced its new customer care concept called Team of Experts.

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T-Mobile USA received the highest score ever in the wireless industry.

T-Mobile USA relied on rapper Snoop Dogg as the spokesperson for its T-Mobile Sidekick in a series of commercials late in 2004, the company released a series of Sidekick phones known as the D-Wade Edition for basketball player Dwyane Wade.

T-Mobile USA US has naming rights contracts with several prominent US sports venues.

T-Mobile USA Arena became home to the Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL the following year.

T-Mobile USA received a score of 100 on the Disability Equality Index, which measures disability inclusion.

T-Mobile USA was awarded a Designation for the top 100 Military Friendly Employer by Military Friendly in 2017 for the tenth time.

T-Mobile USA stated that approximately five percent of its subscribers had been affected.

In 2010, T-Mobile USA began marketing both its HSPA and HSPA+ services as "4G".

T-Mobile USA offers access to voicemail without the input of a password by default.

The following was T-Mobile USA's response regarding data retention: T-Mobile USA US retains customers' historic cell site information and cell tower dump information ; call details records ; text message content, data requests, and geo-location data not stored; voicemail content ; subscriber information .

T-Mobile USA's acknowledged the breach after hackers told Vice that they were selling "full customer info" that was obtained from T-Mobile servers.

T-Mobile USA is offering two years of free identity protection services from McAfee and is recommending its customers to change their PIN as soon as possible.

One of the lawsuits accuses T-Mobile USA of putting plaintiffs as well as members of the class-action to "considerable risk" due to the failure to adequately protect its customers as a result of negligence.

T-Mobile USA has determined that the types data that impacts businesses includes Business name, federal tax ID, business address, contact name, and business phone number, as well as the personal information stated in the above paragraphs and that there is no indication that business or personal financial information, including credit or debit card information, account passwords or PINs were accessed by the data breach.

T-Mobile USA said that he used a readily available tool to locate an exposed router and that it took him a week to penetrate the customer data stored in a T-Mobile data center near East Wenatchee, Washington.

T-Mobile USA provided evidence to support his claim of being responsible for the attack and that he stole the data to create “noise” and get attention.

Two of the complaints accuse T-Mobile USA of violating the US Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, which prohibits companies from engaging in “unfair or deceptive” activities, which includes companies failing to maintain appropriate security measures to safeguard customer information.