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

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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.