tech news T-Mobile freshens their breath

[Bratstech]

Summary

 Mint mobile announced it in a mass customer email that they're being acquired by T-mobile. Mint says they don't have plans to change prices but promise better service and customer experience following this.

Quotes

Quote

 "We believe bringing together these two innovative brands will supercharge our mission to provide you with the most affordable premium wireless service."

Mint Mobile Owner, Ryan Reynolds, and

T-Mobile CEO, Mike Sievert.

 

My thoughts

I've had them for almost a year. Still have yet for a need to call customer support cause it's not bad tbh.

 

Sources

https://www.mintmobile.com/unicorn/ (yes that is the link thanks Ryan for making the mods question me)

I attached the official announcement email to cause it's kinda hard to link.

[Lurick]

Since they already used the T-Mobile network I guess they'll just become a subsidiary instead of a separate company. Provided they don't also merge customer data into T-Mobiles "secure" network then I don't see any issues really.

[TVwazhere]

So would this mean Ryan still maintains ownership of Mint? And if not, does he wipe his hands clean of the company or does he still have say in how the company runs? The video made it seem like he's still part of Mint, which I generally view as a positive thing. 

[Bratstech]

8 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

So would this mean Ryan still maintains ownership of Mint? And if not, does he wipe his hands clean of the company or does he still have say in how the company runs? The video made it seem like he's still part of Mint, which I generally view as a positive thing. 

I believe that he will be running mint still but T-Mobile will have a big hand in it to. Comes both positive and negative sides

 

[Bratstech]

53 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Since they already used the T-Mobile network I guess they'll just become a subsidiary instead of a separate company. Provided they don't also merge customer data into T-Mobiles "secure" network then I don't see any issues really.

I think they'll be integrating more technologies into mint more than anything. Besides I'd bet they'd keep those two databases separate for sorting and better tracking anyway

[SansVarnic]

This move makes sense, T-Mobile seems to be on a move to better increase its service [and customer service]  by combining all of its contract services under the umbrella. I have to be careful on what and how I say this this since I have an invested biased view of T-mobile. I personally cant say much negative from my own experiences being a customer of tmobile for... 20 some years now, each time I had to call, the techs were very helpful and right to the issue.

 

@Bratstech do please find a news article to link in your OP to meet the guidelines

[suicidalfranco]

why compete when you can simply buyout the competition