Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

@1za I think you have some issues mate. DT is the father of T-Mobile you know and DT already owns T-Mob of sort. When you travel in Europe out don't get onto DT, you get onto T-Mobile. I guess you don't travel to Europe much do you.

@1za dt already owns TMO ....

@1wz The US gov may not allow DT to buy TMUS, but..., they would likely allow TMUS to buy DT.

The US government will not allow such a merger because of national security reason. You people need to get a life and get real!

@1e2 Yep. All Srini had to say was yes or no when asked about the merger. Instead he says won’t talk about gossip and rumors. The fact that he did not say NO, means YES.

Gulp. Srini confirmed the merger planning is underway today from the Salem AEM. It's been a good run.

Anyone who's been there before should have seen srini for the transition pawn that he is. Transition is generally never good for employment, and now that the merger is in the open we know what the transition is supposed to be.

@ga nailed it! 🥳

Stop daydreaming. Srini's mandate is now clear, which is to reduce costs in TMUS prior to any merger with DT.

These plans don't happen overnight. This has been in the works for a while.

Make the best of it if you stay. Try to learn something that advances your career independent of TMUS. Don't ki-l yourself for TMUS since it won't matter. Or get out and move forward with your life.

No one is listening. Take control of your life.

T-Mobile told employees the last 12 months were about digital transformation and customer experience.
The public record tells a different story.
While revenue grew 8.5% to $88.3B in 2025, T-Mobile cut jobs four separate times — analysts, engineers, directors, IT, retail, and investor relations staff — with hundreds of IT roles moved to India.
Not during a downturn. During record revenue.
Every single decision improved the financial profile of the business:
— Raised prices → better margins
— Mandated T-Life → eliminated store labor
— Cut headcount 4 times → reduced overhead
— Offshored IT → slashed costs
The tell: investor relations staff were cut in the same round as field techs. IR has nothing to do with customer experience. IR manages the narrative with shareholders and Deutsche Telekom.
On April 21 2026, Bloomberg reported Deutsche Telekom is exploring a full merger with T-Mobile — potentially the largest M&A deal in history.
One restructuring during growth is normal business.
Four rounds across every function during record revenue with a merger announcement at the end is not transformation.
That’s a company being prepared for a transaction — while employees were told it was about them.

What are the odds a Trump Mobile acquisition is part of this deal?

@df DT didn’t build anything. They’re simply milking the U.S. market, which is four times the size of Germany.

If you work at T-Mobile, here’s what the public record actually shows:
THE CUTS (documented)
— Aug 2025: 121 jobs cut
— Jan 2026: 393 jobs cut in Washington state — analysts, managers, directors, engineers
— Feb 2026: Additional IT department cuts (hundreds, number undisclosed)
— Apr 2026: Another round — RF techs, investor relations, executive staff. ~600 under CIO Jeff Simon alone, with reports of jobs moving to India
That’s at least 4 separate rounds in under 12 months — while the company reported $88.3B in revenue in 2025, up 8.5% year over year.
They are cutting during GROWTH. That is not normal cost management.
THE DIGITAL PLAYBOOK (documented)
— Jan 2024: T-Life app launched
— Feb 2025: Store employees instructed to push all transactions through T-Life
— Oct 2025: T-Life made mandatory for ALL transactions — no exceptions
— Jan 2026: All upgrades, line additions, account setups moved to T-Life
Employees are now being tracked on T-Life compliance. Stores are being systematically made redundant.
THE MERGER (broke April 21, 2026 — Bloomberg)
Deutsche Telekom is exploring a full merger with T-Mobile that would be the largest M&A deal in history. T-Mobile ($218B) is now worth MORE than its parent DT ($166B). A new holding company would absorb both.
The pattern: slim the workforce, digitize operations, clean up the balance sheet — then merge.
This is not speculation. Every data point above is on public record.

Here’s the DT/T-Mobile situation in plain terms:
Deutsche Telekom (Germany’s biggest telecom) already owns 53% of T-Mobile US. But T-Mobile has grown so fast it’s now worth MORE than its own parent company ($218B vs $166B). That’s embarrassing and financially broken.
So DT wants to create a brand new holding company that would buy out shareholders of BOTH companies and merge them into one giant global telecom — the biggest M&A deal ever recorded.
The catch: the German government owns 28% of DT and has to approve. And U.S. regulators will be deeply uncomfortable letting a foreign government-linked company fully control a major American carrier.
They’re moving now because the political window in the U.S. is favorable, European telecom is under serious pressure, and waiting only makes the deal harder.
Simple version: DT built something worth more than itself and the corporate structure is actively destroying value. This is them trying to fix it before it’s too late.

@av On paper, yeah, it may simplify things. One parent company, one stock story, less back and forth between DT and TMUS.

DT owning T-Mobile is a threat to national security. T-Mobile should own DT.

@at You think this would simplify things? 😂

@as Yeah, you’re right. Deutsche Telekom already owns most of T-Mobile US.

What’s being talked about isn’t really “buying” it. It looks more like changing the structure.

Right now they’re two separate companies. The idea may be to put both under one parent company, similar to how Alphabet is the parent of Google and YouTube or Meta is the parent of Facebook.

So nothing new gets owned. It just gets organized differently, likely to simplify things and maybe improve how investors value it.

Can someone smarter than me explain this? I thought DT already owned TMUS?

CEO Srini came with a mandate from DT, and that was probably related to this news article about a possible merger between DT and TMUS.