T-Mobile Gets Approval to Purchase SunCom Wireless Plus the T-Mobile Shadow Update

This piece of news indicates that competition in the mobile phone industry remains to be very stiff. One wireless network will no longer operate while another increases in size and number of customers.

This week, T-Mobile has been granted approval to assimilate SunCom wireless into its fold. The major wireless network reportedly had to shell out twenty four billion dollars in order to merge SunCom into its company. Information about this proposed buyout was first released by both companies during September of last year.

SuncOm Wireless is a regional carrier that primarily serves the southeastern United States and some Carribean islands. More than a million wireless customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are being served by this regional wireless network.

Currently, T-Mobile provides wireless services to more than 27 million customers in the US. When this deal will be completed hopefully at the end of this month, more than a million customers will be added to their customer base as well as expand the carrier's network into new areas.

the Federal Communications Commission explained that approving the buyout is for the good of the public interest because it will promoting competition and the Southeast and the Caribbean will be included in T-Mobile's wireless footprint.

T-Mobile Shadow Update

T-mobile made another important announcement, this time it involves their famous T-Mobile Shadow.

The wireless network has offered a software update to the HTC Shadow Windows Mobile smartphone. This update allows users to add some new features to the amazing.

One of the exciting new features is the "audio postcard' which is exclusively offered by T-Mobile. This unique feature allows users to attach a vocal message to a picture message before sending it.

The MyFaves menu of the T-Mobile Shadow has also been updated. Text entry in now easier some multimedia features, including new ringtones and wallpapers have also been included in the update. There is no doubt that these updates makes the amazing Shadow a more formidable smartphone.

Click to here to download the T-Mobile Shadow update.