Binge On Important to T-Mobile's Rapid Growth, Carrier Says
Binge On and other T-Mobile “uncarrier” initiatives contributed to the carrier's recent success, said CEO John Legere and other executives in meetings at the FCC, said an ex parte filing. “These consumer-friendly initiatives, backed by industry-leading technology and network performance,…
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have allowed T-Mobile to grow from 33 million customers to nearly 66 million,” the filing said. “The company representatives explained that T-Mobile continues to aggressively expand the scope and improve the quality of our network to better serve our customers.” T-Mobile reported on meetings with Chairman Tom Wheeler, General Counsel Jonathan Sallet, and Commissioners Mike O’Rielly, Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel. Legere earlier tweeted about his visits to the agency, without supplying details (see 1606230065). T-Mobile executives also “expressed support for the FCC moving forward in the Spectrum Frontiers proceeding to identify and allocate spectrum to support licensed 5G services,” the filing said. “High band spectrum will be an important component for meeting the explosive demand for data, which continues to be driven by video, but will expand even further as the Internet of Things more fully develops.” But carriers want certainty so licensed spectrum is important, T-Mobile said. “The representatives also discussed T-Mobile's support for and leadership in Wi-Fi, noting that T-Mobile customers make some 22 million Wi-Fi calls a day and are able to move seamlessly between Wi-Fi and the wide-area network,” said the filing in 14-177 and other dockets.