Deutsche Telekom Mulling MetroPCS Tie-Up for T-Mobile
No surprise
That alone wouldn't concern me but due to their failed attempt to sell to ATT and their fleeing customer base I suspected they were going to become a pre-paid service only.
I'm in my 9th year with them and this is the first time in history no representative in any of their local stores offered me a discounted upgrade on my handset. They usually offer it up without my mentioning it but I recently inquired at three of their local stores and all of them declined, telling me the price I was getting was a really good price 🤣
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It was recently disclosed that T-Mobile was going to start requiring customers to pay their first months service upfront, then pay for their regular service one month prior to actually using it.
That alone wouldn't
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I think it could work
Advantages to this is that T-Mo would get a headstart on LTE which would be great and acquire some AWS spectrum in the process. It could work but it's tricky.
Plus, MetroPCS uses PCS/AWS for their spectrum, and is currently launching LTE using AWS. This is exactly what T-Mobile is doing.
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