A couple of weeks after T-Mobile won the most awards in an OpenSignal network study, a new report has surfaced that puts T-Mo in the opposite position. RootMetrics has published its Mobile Network Performance in the US study for the second half of 2015. Its results show T-Mobile finishing with an overall network performance score of 80.9 out of 100. To … [read full article]
Verizon recently teased its 5G plans, saying that it plans to begin trials this year with the plan of being the first with a 5G network in the US. T-Mobile hasn’t made any similar 5G announcements yet, but today it did call Verizon out on its claims. During T-Mobile’s Q4 2015 earnings call, CTO Neville Ray said that Verizon is looking to change the game and focus on … [read full article]
After sharing some early Q4 2015 results last month, T-Mobile today spilled all of the details of its end-of-year 2015 performance. In the final months of 2015, T-Mobile added 2.06 million new customers. That includes 1.29 million postpaid subscribers and 469,000 prepaid customers. This makes Q4 2015 the 11th straight quarter that T-Mo has added more than 1 million customers and the third straight quarter … [read full article]
Sprint has been running a half-off switcher promo since November that offers to cut in half the rate plans of folks that switch to Sprint from competing carriers. The deal has been extended a couple of times now because Sprint says that it’s gotten an “overwhelming response,” but some analysts don’t think that the deal will have any effect on T-Mobile. In a recent note regarding T-Mobile’s upcoming results announcement, Barclays analyst Amir … [read full article]
Right on schedule, the T-Mobile version of the HTC One M9 is getting its Android 6.0 update. Several T-Mobile One M9 owners are reporting that Android 6.0 has arrived other devices this morning. The update is arriving in two parts, with the first being a smaller 98.64MB update to prepare your phone for Android 6.0, then a second 1.32GB update … [read full article]
After hosting drinking games for Verizon and AT&T’s earnings calls last month, T-Mobile says that it’ll be holding the “Last Call” edition tomorrow. T-Mobile will have an earnings call drinking game when it live streams its Q4 2015 results tomorrow, February 17, at 8:30 am ET (the actual results will be released at 6:00 am ET). Every time that anyone mentions “listening to customers,” John … [read full article]
T-Mobile had two ads during this year’s Super Bowl, and after they aired, they both seemed to be pretty well-received. Now they’ve won a couple of awards, too. YouTube’s AdBlitz program has been running for years now, giving viewers the ability to vote for their favorite Super Bowl ads. This year’s voting recently wrapped up, and T-Mobile’s “Drop the Balls” and [read full article]
Several companies offer education discounts to give students and teachers savings on new devices or services, and that includes T-Mobile. T-Mobile is giving out coupon codes good for $48 off of a new smartphone or tablet. To qualify, you’ll need to verify that you actually are a student or teacher by submitting your name, email address, school name and ZIP, and possibly some “additional documentation” as well. Once T-Mo has confirmed … [read full article]
HTC One M9 owners, get ready for a Marshmallow treat. HTC’s Mo Versi just announced that the Android 6.0 update for the T-Mobile version of the One M9 has received technical approval. The over the air update is scheduled to start on Tuesday, February 16. Happy Friday! Good news for T-Mobile HTC One (M9) owners! We’ve received technical approval on Marshmallow, with the OTA to start on 2/16. — Mo Versi (@moversi) February 12, 2016 Neither … [read full article]
Here’s some good news for you folks in central Florida. A source has sent in the image you see above, which shows that some new LTE coverage has been added to a tower outside of Tampa. The temporary LTE service is meant to provide added coverage for the Florida State Fair, which is taking place in Tampa. Once the fair comes to an end, though, the site will be permanently outfitted with 700MHz … [read full article]
In addition to launching the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL with Windows 10, T-Mobile started selling two other new devices today. First is the LG K7, an Android 5.1 smartphone with a 5-inch 854×480 display and quad-core Snapdragon 210 processor. Also included are 5-megapixel front and rear cameras, 8GB of storage that you can expand upon with a microSD card, 1.5GB of RAM, and … [read full article]
T-Mobile’s Windows phone lineup is officially a bit larger today, because the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL with Windows 10 is now available. The new Windows 10 version of the Fierce XL is listed with a price of $0 down 23 monthly payments of $5.84 apiece, and 1 payment of $5.67, which works out to equal its $139.99 full retail price. T-Mo has … [read full article]
