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May 14, 2020 10:40 pm

T-Mobile Will Retire Sprint Brand, Unify Retail Stores In Mid-Summer

In an investor conference call this week, new T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said that he's targeting mid-summer as the time when the T-Mobile and Sprint brand will be unified. "This was originally planned for early summer but was pushed to mid-summer due to the coronavirus pandemic," notes PhoneDog. From the report: T-Mobile actually began combining the networks for T-Mo and Sprint subscribers last month. At that time, T-Mo flipped the switch on 2.5GHz 5G coverage in Philadelphia using spectrum that it had acquired from Sprint while also enabling Sprint customers with a Galaxy S20 to jump onto T-Mobile's low-band 600MHz 5G. Additionally, Sprint customers with compatible LTE phones gained the ability to roam on T-Mobile's LTE network, giving them access to more than double the number of LTE cell sites than Sprint's network alone. When it comes to actually integrating the two separate networks, T-Mobile has said that it expects the process to take about 3 years. What the mid-summer unification will mean is that the Sprint brand will go away and existing Sprint customers will begin visiting T-Mobile stores, getting T-Mobile bills, and contacting T-Mobile support. For now, Sprint customers are still going to Sprint stores and contacting the same support that they've been using since before the merger.

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