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Talleycom.com SHEET QUARTER 3 2025 T-Mobile closes $4.3B acquisition of UsCellular T-Mobile on closed on its $4.3 billion acquisition of UScellular's wireless operations, including more than 4 million UScellular customers and about 30% of its spectrum. T-Mobile claims it's a big win for U.S. mobile and broadband customers across the country, as UScellular customers will see increased speeds and get new perks and savings through T- Mobile's plans. According to T-Mobile, the transition will be a smooth one, with nearly all of UScellular customer devices compatible with T-Mobile's network from the get-go. "We're improving experiences for millions of UScellular and T- Mobile customers and adding more amazing employees to the T- Mobile family to help us do it," T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said in a statement. UScellular filed WARN notices in March signaling that it was laying off its entire workforce of 4,100 employees in the 21 states where it operated. At the time, UScellular said it had made arrangements with T-Mobile to offer employment to a majority of those employees "at a salary or wage rate and with benefits, that when taken as a whole, are no less favorable to these employees' current salary or wage rate and benefits." T-Mobile trashed DEI to get it done The FCC approved T-Mobile's acquisition of UScellular's wireless assets just a few days after T-Mobile informed agency Chairman Brendan Carr that it was eliminating anything and everything related to its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, a stipulation Carr made clear was necessary for companies to get their transactions approved by the FCC. As for any other requirements, the FCC staff pretty much said "no" to calls by consumer advocacy groups to attach employment, handset unlocking, roaming, Lifeline or other conditions to the merger. As for any other requirements, the FCC staff pretty much said "no" to calls by consumer advocacy groups to attach employment, handset unlocking, roaming, Lifeline or other conditions to the merger. According to a T-Mobile press release, UScellular customers will "move beyond limited roaming" to a "broader, more powerful experience – starting with reciprocal roaming and evolving into an integrated network experience in the coming months." It's unclear if "an integrated network experience" spells an end to reciprocal roaming for rural carriers. Here's what T-Mobile told Fierce today when asked if it will strike reciprocal roaming agreements with the small rural carriers that had reciprocal roaming agreements with UScellular: "Smaller and rural carriers play a vital role in keeping communities connected, and T-Mobile remains committed to maintaining and expanding roaming relationships where it makes sense. We currently have reciprocal roaming agreements in place with several rural providers, even in areas where we have overlapping service, to ensure seamless connectivity for our customers wherever they go," T-Mobile said in a statement. During T-Mobile's Q2 earnings call last month, CEO Mike Sievert said the combination with UScellular will give it a 50% or more increase in capacity in the combined footprint and its sites in those markets will expand by one-third, from 9,000 to 12,000. That will certainly give T-Mobile better coverage in the smaller markets and rural areas that UScellular served. Helping to kick things off, T-Mobile entered into a 15-year Master License Agreement as a long-term tenant on at least 2,015 towers owned by Array and extended the lease terms for another 600 towers where T-Mobile is already a tenant. Article Credit: https://www.fierce-network.com/wireless/t-mobile- closes-43b-acquisition-uscellular

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