T-Mobile Announces “Challenger Strategy” & 4G LTE Investment
Now that T-Mobile and AT&T have moved past their disastrous merger attempts both of them are finally getting back to improving their networks. T-Mobile USA CEO and President Philipp Humm today outlined the company’s “reinvigorated challenger strategy” which is a sort of take on “affordable 4G.” This 4G plan is part of them building out their LTE network for a launch in 2013. The main two prongs of the effort are:
An investment in attracting and retaining customers which includes aggressively pursuing the B2B market, ramping up advertising spending, and attracting new MVNO partners. A $4 billion investment over time into network modernization and LTE deployment. Over the next two years, this represents approximately $1.4 billion in incremental network investment.Check out the full details in their announcement below:
“We realised a few years ago that M2M is quite different from the mobile phone business,” says Marc Sauter, head of business development for M2M at Vodafone. “This was when we decided that we needed a dedicated and specific technical solution.
