BROWSING: T-Mobile

Greetings from Hilton Head Island (SC),  Davidson/ Lake Norman (NC) and Omaha (NE).  Pictured is a long-time friend and former colleague, Christopher (“Topher”) Wren and I having a terrific conversation and dinner at Stokes in downtown Omaha.  Topher is currently the Senior Vice President...

T-Mobile US this week report a strong first quarter marked by 1.2 million postpaid net subscriber additions and 773,000 postpaid adds. T-Mo reported total revenue of $19.8 billion with net income of $993 million. In what CEO Mike Sievert described as a "beat-and-raise quarter,"...

T-Mobile users connected to 5G nearly one-third of the time, according to OpenSignal report Since the release of OpenSignal’s previous report in January, the availability of 5G under all three major U.S. carriers increased. T-Mobile US maintained its lead when it comes to 5G speed,...

Tax Day greetings from the middle of Texas (the iconic Underwood’s Cafeteria sign is pictured – it’s definitely a Texas thing) and from Davidson/ Lake Norman.  Feels good to be on the road again.  This week, we will divide our time between first quarter earnings...

Congratulations to T-Mobile for introducing their Home Internet service. There is a growing market for this service. How well does this service work? Based on what I hear so far, it sounds pretty interesting. T-Mobile says that they have a bigger list of cities...

Latest T-Mobile US "Un-carrier" event featured strong focus on 5G for rural America In terms of 5G creating long-term user value and service provider revenue, the high-level global focus is on enterprise enablement. 5G for consumers is an expected evolution--higher speeds, lower latency, faster downloads...

April greetings from Davidson and Charlotte, NC where spring buds (and storms) are popping up all over.  This week we will analyze the events of the past two weeks with a particular focus on T-Mobile’s Home Internet Uncarrier announcement last Thursday.  Before diving into the...

T-Mobile is shutting down their TVision pay TV service. So, what does this mean for their future? They have been talking about entering and changing the pay TV space for years. They thought they would be successful in pay TV like they have become...

5G Open Innovation Lab also supporting IoT lifecycle management, eSIM specialists The Seattle-based 5G Open Innovation Lab, which bills itself as an "applied innovation ecosystem," this week announced its third round of participating companies. Among the 15 companies selected, there's a strong focus on not...

15 firms with Series A and B financing comprise class of Spring 2021 The 5G Open Innovation Lab, a Seattle-based "innovation ecosystem" backed by T-Mobile, Amdocs, Dell Technologies, Intel, Microsoft, NASA and VMware, announced last week the 15 companies joining the program for Spring...

Greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman where the 2-year-drought has ended! The editor has a question for all the TSB-reading technology innovators, implementers and investors: Why is it 2021 and we’re still having to do THIS with our TV’s? Picture-in-picture was an ‘80’s phenomenon. After...

Mid-March greetings from Charlotte/ Lake Norman/ Davidson, where we prematurely celebrated National Poires Belle Helene Day (which is March 15).  Like many of you, the COVID-19 pandemic has broadened our culinary skills.  We are looking forward to enjoying this and other tasty desserts at our favorite...

T-Mobile's enterprise goal is to be “top of mind for every CIO across America”  Verizon laid out its grand plan to deploy C Band spectrum at an investor event on Wednesday and, the following day, executives with T-Mobile US used the new competitive guidance to...

A break in the clouds from the COVID stay-at-home: For our neighbors: homemade cheesecake. For us: homemade boerewors (traditional South African farmer’s sausage) and the Editor’s chakalaka. Silver Linings. After covering this week’s market news, briefly evaluating T-Mobile’s Work from Anywhere (WFX) announcement and discussing the latest batch...

Deutsche Telekom has said it is now offering NB-IoT connectivity in 20 countries and LTE-M in 10 countries. The company has outlined new cellular IoT contracts for water irrigation with Spanish manufacturer Hidroconta, in-building lighting with German lighting specialist Fischer Akkumulatorentechnik, storm damage monitoring...

Big Game greetings from Lake Norman/ Charlotte/ Davidson, NC.  Pictured (r-l) are Darius Warton,  Bob Guth (audophile and telecom legend), Gary Eason and yours truly.  Gary and Darius have started a business selling vinyl records and turntables – check out their selection at www.thetwistedvinyl.com.  We build...

T-Mobile saw $1.3 billion in 2020 post-merger run rate synergies; guiding up to $3 billion in 2021 T-Mobile US this week touted 2020 as it's "best year ever" as CEO Mike Sievert put it, and laid out an ambitious plan to extend its mid-band 5G...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 can aggregate T-Mobile's 600 MHz and 2.5 GHz 5G bands Samsung this week debuted its latest flagship, the Galaxy S21, with across-the-board feature advancements and, of course, support for non-standalone and standalone 5G both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave. Of interest n...

In October T-Mobile expanded on a pilot project by opening up an LTE-backed fixed wireless access home internet service to some 20 million households. This week CEO Mike Sievert provided more color on the carrier's FWA strategy and how the company's television service, TVision,...

Chilly December greetings from Lake Norman, where “Santa Jim” was busy distributing Christmas treats to the neighborhood dogs.  They are certainly an attentive bunch.  Thanks for the many responses to last week’s Brief.  As seen below, content/streaming developments seem to occur daily, and we are...

December greetings from Springfield, MO, and Davidson, NC.  Pictured is yours truly standing in one of the world’s largest coal shovels (used for strip mining in rural Missouri in the 1950s).  This particular shovel is prominently displayed in a small town (Rich Hill) in...

Analysts pressed Verizon on millimeter wave 5G network coverage during sell-side analyst meeting T-Mobile US Vice President of Technology Neville Ray is confident in the carrier’s 5G “coverage leadership.” Speaking recently at the virtual BCG/New Street Research 5G Conference, Ray touted the reach of T-Mo’s...

T-Mobile is launching their new pay TV offering called TVision. With a growing list of new competitors, will this be successful? Let’s take a look at the growing industry, the new and existing competitors and the secret to a successful pay TV service in...

NAD determined that some of T-Mobile's 5G claims are misleading After an examination of T-Mobile US’ claims about its 5G network, the National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs has found that the carrier’s ads have been potentially misleading consumers. While NAD determined that some...