- T-Mobile's Acquisition Of Sprint Is Done, Speeding Up 5G Deployment
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Merger, worth about $31.8 billion based on T-Mobile's closing stock price Tuesday, marks the end of Sprint as a company and a brand. ...
- Andy Rubin's Essential Products Pulls Plug On Project Gem, Shuts Down
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, February 13, 2020
Company released just one smartphone, the Essential Phone, whose unique notch design was quickly knocked off. ...
- Federal Judge Reportedly Will Approve T-Mobile, Sprint Merger
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Sources say approval is imminent, and will lift the final roadblock to the $26.5 billion deal. ...
- T-Mobile Reports Stellar Quarter As It Awaits Decision On Sprint Merger
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, February 7, 2020
Verdict in antitrust trial could have far-reaching impact if merger is killed, showing state officials can block deals independently of feds. ...
- AGs' Challenge To T-Mobile, Sprint Gets Underway In Federal Court
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, December 9, 2019
The challenge from state AGs comes after the merger had already been approved by the DOJ and FCC. ...
- T-Mobile CEO Legere Says He's Handing Over 'The Magenta CEO Reigns'
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Legere protege Mike Sievert, currently president and COO, will take over as T-Mobile CEO May 1. ...
- NYC Slams T-Mobile Metro's Sales Tactics In Multipronged Lawsuit
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, September 6, 2019
Complaint alleges overcharging, "selling used phones as new ones, [and] enrolling victims in costly financing plans without their permission." ...
- Major Phone Companies Reach Pact With State AGs To Curb Robocalls
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, August 23, 2019
The move amplifies the anti-robocall measures contained in the bipartisan Stopping Bad Robocalls Act that was passed by the House in June. It remains on hold in the Senate. ...
- DOJ OKs T-Mobile, Sprint Merger
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Thom Forbes - Monday, July 29, 2019
The Department of Justice approved the long-pending merger of No. 3 carrier T-Mobile with No. 4 Sprint after the two agreed to sell Sprint’s prepaid wireless business to Dish Network to create ...
- FCC Chief Pai Approves Revised Sprint T-Mobile Merger Plans
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, May 21, 2019
But it's still not a done deal, since not every one of five FCC commissioners is on board, and the Justice Department must approve the merger as well. ...
- Top 10 Stories Of 2018 Prove To Be A Motley Collection
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Topics range from corporate restructuring to food trends to the impact of riled-up consumers on controversial sponsorships. ...
- Proposed T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Passes Two Key Security Reviews
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, December 18, 2018
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and "Team Telecom" (made up of reps from various government departments) both approved the merger. ...
- I Think I'll Be Able To Outrun AI (For Now)
AI Insider, Thom Forbes - Thursday, October 25, 2018
Can this writer and fitness trainer be replaced by artificial intelligence? Maybe not yet. ...
- Rebranded Metro by T-Mobile Says It Will Offer 5G Service Next Year
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, October 9, 2018
"Innovation that was science fiction a decade ago is not only possible, but investment opportunities are also developing right now," reads one report. ...
- Casper Sleep Wakes Up To The Benefits Of Bricks And Mortar
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, August 13, 2018
Casper Sleep, which has been disrupting the mattress business since it launched online four years ago, opened some eyes last week by announcing it will expand from one permanent reta ...
- Sprint Enticing Competitors' Patrons With $15 Unlimited Data Plan
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, June 11, 2018
Even as its proposed merger with T-Mobile is under review by federal regulators, Sprint is offering a $15-a-month-per-line unlimited data plan to lure customers from its competitors, including the "Uncarrier ...
- T-Mobile And Sprint Declare Intentions To Live Happily Ever After
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, April 30, 2018
After years of dalliance - with barbs and darts thrown in between - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile US and SoftBank Group's Sprint have announced a definitive agreement to wed if feder ...
- T-Mobile And Sprint Hang Up On Each Other ... Again
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, November 6, 2017
After courting each other for longer than Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Sprint and T-Mobile called off merger talks over the weekend, citing their inability "to find mutually agreeable terms ...
- After Charter Spurns Sprint, Parent SoftBank May Bid For Charter
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, July 31, 2017
One thing seems to be clear in the array of purported offers Sprint and Softbank honcho Masayoshi Son has been making, or intends to make. He wants a big pie ...
- T-Mobile Attracts Customers, Rings Some Bells On Wall Street
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, July 20, 2017
For all of T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere's bluster, he's delivering. The No. 3 wireless carrier yesterday blew away analysts' estimates when it said it had gained 1.3 million tot ...
- Sprint Talks Bundling With Comcast, Charter; Puts T-Mobile On Hold
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Wednesday, June 28, 2017
The race to make a deal with T-Mobile has been a long jog for Sprint, and now it is setting off to explore a side path - a possible de ...
- Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan Stems The Bleeding
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, April 21, 2017
Late to respond to its feisty competitors' unlimited-data offerings, Verizon lost wireless customers - 289,000 cellphone subscribers and about 307,000 overall - for the first time ever during the fir ...
- Pushed To Its Limit, Verizon Offering Unlimited Data Plans
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, February 13, 2017
There was a limit, after all, to just how long Verizon could withstand the pressure of its rivals offering unlimited data plans. Starting today, it will, too. ...
- Verizon Clamping Down On Unlimited Data Abusers
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, January 12, 2017
Verizon is putting the squeeze on heavy data users, giving customers who are on unlimited data plans and habitually use more than 200 gigabytes a month or so to choo ...
- Succumbing To Phone Wars Reality, AT&T Axes Overage Fees
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, August 18, 2016
AT&T announced new rate plans yesterday that eliminate surcharges for exceeding data limits in favor of slowing speeds down to a level where users really won't want to try viewi ...
- Sprint's Q1 Results Indicate It's Being Heard
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure hit five bars with investors yesterday. The company's stock closed up 28% after a Q1 earnings presentation and conference call revealed a fourth-straight quarter of postpa ...
- Marketing All Star: Ron Amram
MediaPost All Stars, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Pursuit of excellence is (to tweak a buzz phrase) brewed into the DNA of Heineken, whose founder crafted the original super premium beer. ...
- Henkel CEO Rorsted Sprints To Adidas
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Tuesday, January 19, 2016
To the cheers of the financial market, Adidas AG yesterday replaced Herbert Hainer ahead of his scheduled 2017 departure and named the journeyed and well-regarded Kasper Rorsted - currently he ...
- NBA, Verizon To Announce $400 Million Mobile Content Deal
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Verizon and the National Basketball Association will announce a marketing deal this morning that revolves around the new, ad-supported Go90 mobile video streaming service targeting younger consumers that rolled o ...
- Apple Watch Sales Data May Be Better Than It Has Hinted
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, August 28, 2015
Although Apple has been touting its Watch's ability to track everything from minutes of brisk activity to glucose levels, it has been vague about its own sales data for t ...