00:00 Speaker a
In today’s strength game, I had the opportunity to sit down with T-Mobile CEO and Mike, a member of the Board of Starbucks. Here’s what divorced me. First, the Siever retreated to the recent announcement that he would leave the role of the CEO early, as well as T-Mobile confirmed the date of its new Starlink satellite service called UH, T-Satellite. That’s what he had to say.
00:28 Mike sievert
That report was slightly overcrowded. So they made a lot of things, including the idea that someone made decisions to leave quickly. But they do not mistake one thing, which is the case, we have employed the Sint, referring to the idea of ​​inheritance planning. And I would tell you that any business should think about these things. This is not bad news, it’s good news. You know, every big step I make in the People Arena is the belief that the secret sauce of this company is here in the long run and will miss any of us. And Srini’s bringing was part of that story. He is a fantastic leader who has turned the main operation of German CEO and adds great value here. But that does not mean that I or anyone else made a decision about me that quickly withdraws.
01:43 Speaker a
T-Satellite News, UH, should be commercially released on July 23. What is this service? What will this allow you to do?
01:54 Mike sievert
Well, it is the largest satellite in a cellular network in the world. And we have talked about this future for almost three years, when 2022 August We first unveiled it from Starbas in Texas. Then it was a technology alliance that we dreamed of inventing a technology that means one simple thing. If you see the sky, you are logged in. This is the end of dead areas. And you know that there are 500,000 square miles in this country that no cellular networks are reaching, not AT&T, not Verizon. So now, you know, this is the provision of this service to the American society and we open the door to everyone. T-Mobile customers get this for free because of some plans, but anyone, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, is irrelevant. But who can only have it for $ 10 a month. It is designed by our UM experience at Beyond Plan, which is our most popular plans line to go 5G in our previous model plan. And everyone else is only $ 10 a month. And think about peace of mind to be accessible because, you know, the way it works is that it works with your phone you already have. Hm and it connects automatically. It is very different from anything that came before. So you do not know if you have fallen off the ground network and it will not matter because your phone will automatically connect to the satellite without making a video game trying to log in. And that way you achieve. But at the beta we found with over a million users that more than two -thirds of the messages were actually away from others trying to reach you when you’re in the wild.
04:11 Speaker a
Recently, Mike, UH, T-Mobile, UM, has issued a five-year price lock for his phone plans. Undoubtedly, I think I was surprised by several people in the industry, UH, shocked in the industry. What were your training from the beginning?
04:37 Mike sievert
Well, you know, people are worried and there is a lot of uncertainty in the world. Prices rose everything, and they also rose in telecommunications. Hm, and they want some reliability from the value leader who is T-Mobile that we will have their backs. And the value is of various forms. You know, one form is the price you pay. And now the price paid will not change for five years.
05:10 Speaker a
Why are phone plans so tall?
05:16 Mike sievert
Well, III would say the opposite, that is why they didn’t get hooked? In real dollars, you pay the same amount you did in 2019. On average, but you are consuming, UH, three times more data four times the speed. This is a 5G dividend. The American user rather than T-Mobile customers, the American user uses three times as much data four times the same price in real dollars. Name another industry providing such value.