T-Cellular now formally owns UScellular

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

If you happen to’re a UScellular buyer, you don’t should do something. “UScellular clients keep on their present plans with no adjustments for now,” the service said. You may proceed to handle your account by way of UScellular’s web site. You too can nonetheless flip to the T-Cellular-owned service for buyer help.

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 personal sector.

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