With the work-from-home miracle rhadamanthine increasingly of a long-term reality, T-Mobile is looking to capitalize on its 5G wireless network — expanded thanks in large part to its Sprint merger last year — to pulsate up increasingly merchantry from large companies.
The Bellevue, Wash., wireless carrier announced a new T-Mobile Home Office Internet service that includes a 5G wireless router for companies to have sent directly to employees’ homes. T-Mobile says it’s attempting to unravel the “stranglehold that AT&T and Verizon have on the enterprise.”
T-Mobile Home Office Internet, which starts at $90 per line per month, is part of a broader set of services for merchantry spoken by T-Mobile on Thursday morning under the name “WFX.”
Dialpad investment: The visitor moreover spoken a new business-oriented phone service in partnership with San Francisco-based Dialpad. T-Mobile said it has taken an probity stake in the deject merchantry phone and contact part-way provider, in wing to an observer seat on the Dialpad board. The size of the probity stake wasn’t disclosed by the companies.
Post-merger employment: T-Mobile reported in its recent 10K yearly filing that it had 75,000 employees as of the end of 2020, well-nigh 5,000 less than the combined total of Sprint and T-Mobile employees at the time of their $26.5 billion deal last year. As reported by wireless industry news publication LightReading, T-Mobile had pledged to preserve and expand the employee base.
“We’re not valuables yonder from our transferral on jobs,” a T-Mobile spokesperson said in a statement. “In 2020 we worked through the integration and as with any merger we addressed some redundancies, however we have unfurled hiring in spite of a ramified pandemic environment. We currently have nearly 3,000 job openings, only a portion of which are part of our Un-carrier Job initiative that we launched last summer to rent 5,000 increasingly employees.”
Latest results: T-Mobile widow a net total of 1.7 million in the fourth quarter, growing to 102 million total customers. It posted quarterly revenue of $20.3 billion and profits of $750 million.