UScellular prospects, he mentioned can have the chance to “faucet into the breadth of what T-Cell has performed on a spectrum stage, creating this high-performing 5G community. For years, Verizon was probably the most dependable community. And T-Cell aggressively has attacked 5G and I believe they’re making an attempt to wrestle that mantle away from Verizon when it comes to most dependable.”
If the deal is permitted, then customers with UScellular contracts can have the choice to remain on their present plans or transfer to a limiteless T-Cell plan of their selecting with no switching prices, with advantages that embody streaming and free worldwide knowledge roaming, T-Cell mentioned.
The corporate didn’t disclose its plans for enterprise prospects.
Laurent Therivel, CEO of UScellular, mentioned that the “transaction gives our prospects entry to raised protection and speeds, in addition to limitless texting in additional than 215 international locations, content material gives, gadget upgrades and different T-Cell advantages.”
T-Cell mentioned it’s going to pay for the acquisition with a mixture of money and the belief of as much as $2 billion of UScellular’s debt.