T-Mobile Wants Out of Mandate to Add 1,000 California Jobs
- Carrier says job goal was flawed, ‘infeasible’ due to Covid-19
- Agreement was part of state’s conditional nod two months ago
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Two and a half months into the life of the “new” T-Mobile US Inc., the self-proclaimed maverick mobile-phone carrier is already asking to roll back mandates proposed by California in exchange for approval to buy its smaller rival Sprint Corp.
T-Mobile -- now the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier because of the April 1 merger -- is asking the state’s Public Utilities Commission for a waiver of job-creation goals and network-speed milestones.