T-Mobile Outage Silences Boastful Upstart, and Brings FCC Probe
- Network meltdown is first test for company after Sprint deal
- T-Mobile merged with Sprint in April after two-year saga
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
This article is for subscribers only.
T-Mobile US Inc. had its first big network meltdown since leapfrogging AT&T Inc. to become the No. 2 wireless carrier in the U.S., and the company’s response has been uncharacteristically quiet.
As many as 68 million of T-Mobile’s wireless customers had their service disrupted for several hours Monday as the company tried to identify the problem and restore service.