T-Mobile now officially owns UScellular

T-Cellular has sealed the deal on its UScellular acquisition. In change for $4.3 billion, T-Cellular will get UScellular’s prospects, shops and 30 % of its spectrum.

Should you’re a UScellular buyer, you don’t should do something. “UScellular prospects keep on their current plans with no modifications for now,” the service said. You possibly can proceed to handle your account by UScellular’s web site. It’s also possible to nonetheless flip to the T-Cellular-owned service for buyer assist.

The $4.3 billion wasn’t the one value T-Cellular needed to pay. To realize the approval of Trump’s FCC, the service agreed to gut its DEI programs. That adopted Verizon doing the same for its Frontier acquisition. The president has used merger approvals as a cudgel to push his agenda (together with getting lawsuits settled) within the non-public sector.

UScellular will now exist solely as an infrastructure firm. It will possibly now generate income from licensing its remaining spectrum and towers.