T-Mobile Plans $50 Broadband Pilot to Sway Sprint Deal Approval

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T-Mobile US Inc. plans to offer 50,000 select mobile customers a $50-a-month home broadband service, in its latest effort to show how its pending $26.5 billion Sprint Corp. acquisition would bring more competition to the industry.

The pilot program will be available by invitation only, in areas where T-Mobile’s LTE 4G network has capacity to deliver high-speed internet access, according to a statementBloomberg Terminal. T-Mobile has said it will cover more than half the nation’s households with advanced 5G broadband service by 2024 if it adds Sprint’s capacity.

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