T-Mobile CEO Makes His Annual Predictions For The Upcoming Year
December 29, 2018
T-Mobile CEO John Legere traditionally makes a forecast for the upcoming year. While some of the predictions are real, they are mixed in with tongue-in-cheek insults hurled at T-Mobile's rivals. So what does the outspoken executive see happening in 2019? As you might expect, Legere expects 5G to be the big story next year. He says T-Mobile will be the only company with a real plan for nationwide mobile 5G. He adds that if the Sprint deal is approved "buckle up." The firm created by the proposed merger, the New T-Mobile, "will bring 5G to everyone, everywhere!"
The executive who turned around T-Mobile and gave the U.S. wireless industry a kick in the butt also predicts that by the end of 2019, Verizon will have not released a 5G coverage map to hide how limited its coverage is. According to Legere, Verizon's 5G signal will cover "blocks and blocks." And he predicts that since the carrier is using millimeter wave spectrum only, Verizon's 5G coverage won't get much better.
He also expects Verizon to sell Oath, the company it created to house the AOL and Yahoo businesses it purchased for billions of dollars. Legere says, "...Verizon is a HUGE company so I’m confident they’re already well on their way to screwing something else up. So, the Oath fire sale is right around the corner. Who wants Tumblr?" He also expects the nation's largest carrier to have the most ironic Super Bowl ad for the second straight year. During the last Super Bowl, the wireless provider ran an ad touting first responders; six months later, the carrier throttled California firefighters' wireless service.
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