In 1985, the Unabomber killed his first victim, the wreck of the RMS Titanic was located, and Greenpeace ship ‘Rainbow Warrior’ was sunk by French Agents. In the same year, Germany’s state postal monopoly launched the country’s first true mobile phone network. In 1999, following a long period of reorganisation, deregulation and de-privatisation, T-Mobil International AG & Co. KG was founded. Three years later, the company anglicized T-Mobil, renaming the business T-Mobile. Eventually, T-Mobiles parent company, Deutsche Telekom AG, began expanding internationally, marking the beginnings of T-Mobile as a truly global business.
In 2001, Deutsche Telekom purchased VoiceStream Wireless—a communications company with more than 20,000 employees and 7 million subscribers—for more than $30 billion. Later the same year, Deutsche Telekom renamed VoiceStream Wireless T-Mobile USA, marking the beginnings of the business’s American growth and expansion. Several years late, T-Mobile continued its acquisition of established telecommunications businesses, purchasing SunCom Wireless for more than $2 billion, followed by an attempted acquisition of AT&T. By 2013, T-Mobile had merged with MetroPCS and become a public company traded on the NYSE. Following a string of discussions and failed efforts, in 2018 T-Mobile merged with Sprint in an all-stock agreement, significantly expanding the businesses reach and coverage. By 2019, the company declared it was employing over 50,000 employees and recording revenues in excess of $40 billion.
Of course, all this growth took place during a period of revolution in smartphone development, availability and ownership. Smartphones grew increasingly more capable, functional and desirable during the early-2000s, a trend which continued throughout the 2010s, when they truly became both desirable and necessary for daily life. Beginning with the launch of the iPhone, owning the latest handset became truly ‘trendy’, and with new models releasing bi-annually, consumers needed a new way to purchase devices, one which allowed them to spread the cost. Capitalising on this growing demand, global network providers like T-Mobile began offering locked devices on ‘contract’, which meant customers could spread the device cost in exchange for agreeing to use that network’s network. Locked devices do not work with any other SIM.
Today, T-Mobile UK no longer exists, the company merged with Orange, later forming EE, now the largest mobile network operation in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, T-Mobile U.S. boasts over 100 million subscribers, making it the second-largest wireless carrier in the country. Of course, all this means there are many millions of smartphone owners globally either using a locked T-Mobile device or holding on to one in a draw at home. But, unlocking your T-Mobile device—current or redundant—could unlock a heap of benefits.
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