T-Mobile confirms it will shut down Sprint’s LTE network next year
T-Mobile has wasted no time consolidating Sprint's network and spectrum with its own. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As reported by Light Reading and confirmed to The Verge, T-Mobile has committed to a June 30, 2022 shutdown date for Sprint's LTE network. It's an expected move as T-Mobile continues to absorb Sprint's network and customers into its own base, and comes six months after its contentious planned January 1, 2022 shutdown of Sprint's 3G CDMA network.
A third of Sprint customers have already been moved onto the T-Mobile network, according to T-Mobile. The company expects to be able to migrate the remaining two thirds by that mid-2022 deadline, according to CFO Peter Osvaldik's remarks at an investor conference last month. Some of those customers will likely need new devices that are compatible with T-Mobile LTE and VoLTE, though the company...