The T-Mobile-Sprint merger finally closed on April 1st, 23 months after being announced by the carriers’ CEOs at the time, John Legere and Marcelo Claure. T-Mobile wanted to make the purchase in order to obtain Sprint‘s mid-band 2.5GHz spectrum.
Needless to say, as you walk along the street, that store you used to pass by with the bright yellow letters on the sign, is going to look different. While some Sprint stores are being changed to T-Mobile locations, others, where a Sprint and a T-Mobile store are in close proximity, have just closed for good.
T-Mobile is now the carrier with the most retail stores
While down from the combined 8,800 number of the two carriers before the merger, the number is still with a few hundred higher than the previous retail champion Verizon, and way up from AT&T’s 5,500 stores.
This news comes hot on the heels of T-Mobile becoming the second US carrier by subscriber base, with 98.3 million customers until June, surpassing AT&T’s 92.9 million postpaid and prepaid customers in the last quarter.
Yet “another feather in T-Mobile’s cap,” as Jeff Moore puts it, and, apparently, the Un-carrier can no longer claim the underdog status, what with the largest retail presence, second largest subscriber base, and the widest 5G net, albeit in the low- to mid-bands.
