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T-Mobile has made a number of announcements this year, under the “uncarrier” umbrella, that have totally redefined its way of doing business. It first announced the Jump! program, which was soon followed by AT&T, Verizon and Sprint with similar offers. T-Mobile subscribers don’t sign conventional two year service contracts now, the carrier allows them to upgrade their device while paying equal monthly installments for the device. Today, CEO John Legere hinted at yet another announcement, but didn’t say when we can expect to hear more about it.

In his tweet, Legere says that “#ItsAboutCustomers” and that its time to remove another “pain point” that customers have to endure on their carriers. “Time for #Uncarrier4?,” Legere asks. It is too soon to speculate right now exactly what this announcement is related to. The tweet itself doesn’t offer any hints as to what and most importantly when we can expect Legere to make this announcement. Another “uncarrier” move that T-Mobile made earlier this year was opening up unlimited 2G global data roaming at no extra cost. These moves were much appreciated, so there’s no doubt in the fact that subscribers and the industry are looking forward to what T-Mobile has in store next. On a separate note, Sprint might be looking to buy T-Mobile.

T-Mobile CEO Hints At Yet Another ‘Uncarrier’ Announcement original content from Ubergizmo.

When T-Mobile threw the switch on its first LTE markets back in March, the company promised to cover 100 million people by mid year. Four months on, there are 157 million potential customers with access to the un-carrier’s still fledgling 4G LTE network. With true 4G now launched in 116 metro areas the expansion is actually ahead of schedule, and could match its HSPA+ footprint within a year. By the end of 2013, Big Magenta plans to cover 200 markets, encompassing 200 million people — which actually seems quite conservative seeing how quickly the network has expanded so far. In fact, the speedy deployment kinda puts AT&T and Sprint to shame. T-Mo might have waited the longest to get on the LTE train, but it’s hasn’t wasted any time getting those blazing speeds to its loyal customers.

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After a month of offering the iPhone 5 for $100 down, T-Mobile has quietly increased the upfront cost by $50. Even with the price hike, it’s still less expensive than on most other carriers, but some type of warning would’ve certainly been appreciated. As for the rest of T-Mobile’s new pricing scheme, its $20-a month, two-year amortization schedule remains intact. Consider us skeptical, but hopefully this is just a case of growing pains, and unannounced promotions won’t be part of the UnCarrier’s game plan going forward.

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If T-Mobile’s recent event cussed you into wanting one of its tweaked A1428 iPhone 5s with LTE, AWS HSPA+ and no contract strings attached, you can now order one up. Apple’s flagship can be had through the carrier for $99 down and 24 payments of $20 for a total of $579 — a snappy $70 savings over buying one directly from Cupertino. Meanwhile, T-Mo’s Simple Choice plan starts at $50 per month for unlimited talk, text and 500MB of data, with an additional 2GB for $10 and unlimited 4G data for $20. Just remember that should you opt into an iPhone 5 through T-Mobile then decide to opt out of your contract, the device will stay carrier locked until you pay it off or trade it back — unless you’re willing to skirt the law, of course. Hit the source to make your reservation.

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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages

This week, there’s been a mixed bag of interesting news numbers, from T-Mobile’s New York event and the company’s new perspective on the phone network business, to San Francisco (again) for the Games Developers Conference. We also got to take a look at BlackBerry’s first financial results since the name change and its BB10 launch.

Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Sony, Blackberry, T-Mobile

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