T-Mobile's "Project Dark"

Do you work @ T-Mobile Jet?

No.  I've just observed how T-Mobile operates for awhile now.  They hype their employees all the time.  Remember those memos that were posted about how the G1 was going to be the iphone killer?  What happened with that?  How about the Hotspot@Home VOIP service, the magic picture frame, UMA, Whoopi, Jesse & Phil promoting the MyTouch.  Either Project Black is more of the same---which will never get them out of 4th place----or as other people have pointed out, a merger with Sprint. (Which is completely bad news for T-mobile customers)

As a loyal tmo customer I will stay optomistic and hope for the best.  But I agree, I don't think it's gonna be huge news.  Besides, if tmo got their hands on the iphone do you think they would keep it the same or turn it into another teeny phone.

You know everyone is talking about merger (possible), new phone(s) (possible)... but what about T-mobile taking after their UK counterpart... offering all phones for free under contract? possible?


BTW, what ever happened to My Faves 2.0... did i miss that announcement?

You know everyone is talking about merger (possible), new phone(s) (possible)... but what about T-mobile taking after their UK counterpart... offering all phones for free under contract? possible?

Really? Wow. I didn't know they did that. I would say that would be a reason to man up their customer service base and in store employees for the anticipated riot of folks fleeing Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T to T-Mo.

That wouldnt benefit the customers lol

That wouldnt benefit the customers lol

Probably not , but one could hope that if that is part of it and they announce that they are getting the SE Xperia 3/Rachel, it'd make me happy! I'd gladly fork over the deposit for having bad credit to get a free Xperia 3 phone on contract! Just toss in some an unlimited plan too.

You know everyone is talking about merger (possible), new phone(s) (possible)... but what about T-mobile taking after their UK counterpart... offering all phones for free under contract? possible?


BTW, what ever happened to My Faves 2.0... did i miss that announcement?

That would definitely help bring in some more customers but I don't think it would be enough to rocket T-mobile into third place or better. If they were going to do that they would need to bring in some better phones as well to get people to jump ship on other carriers.

Firefrost and Atticus Welcome to Tmonews. I have a feeling its going to be either a Feature or a network upgrade that has a very special feature but i dont think its a merger..why didnt they divulge this info ahead of time...as much ninjas as there are out there we would find out way ahead of tmo's employee's or at least at the same time...i dont think its a merger, though im not completely dismissing the fact that it could be placeholder change from 4 to 3.

so are we expecting to hear from tmo employees or "ninjas" by the end of the day today?

Well:

"The carrier's employees are being trained tomorrow for "Project Black"."

Since the post was yesterday, this I guess means today is "tomorrow", so we should see information leaks today.  If not- story probably blown out of proportion.

That is the beauty of it- people can NOT keep their mouths shut.  

Regardless, I know the things it will not be:

1.  No new phones or iPhone, since this will "steal the thunder" from their recent new phone announcements.
2.  No network upgrade.  3G is not even rolled out to a majority yet.

Could be Sprint merger and would explain why they are not too upset of the Pre's mega million $ failure in the market

Either that or it is a pre-Christmas push that got blown out of proportion.  

No leaks today- no big news at all.  Seriously, the real game changer is Android and Sholes for Verizon.  That phone will be a huge, dark cloud over Tmo.  Big win for the V.

Firefrost and Atticus Welcome to Tmonews. I have a feeling its going to be either a Feature or a network upgrade that has a very special feature but i dont think its a merger..why didnt they divulge this info ahead of time...as much ninjas as there are out there we would find out way ahead of tmo's employee's or at least at the same time...i dont think its a merger, though im not completely dismissing the fact that it could be placeholder change from 4 to 3.

Thanks

I agree I don't think it will be a merger. I'm just hung up on the reports saying that it is supposed to be a game changer for T-mobile.

I don't see a network upgrade being the big announcment. Even if T-mobile said they are going to upgrade their network for everyone tomorrow, how many people will really leave their current carrier when Verizon and Sprint are right on the heels of 4g networks. I would think it would have to be some amazing phone or service that they are planning. Or maybe a combination of all of it, who knows. 

You know everyone is talking about merger (possible), new phone(s) (possible)... but what about T-mobile taking after their UK counterpart... offering all phones for free under contract? possible?


BTW, what ever happened to My Faves 2.0... did i miss that announcement?

That would also be game changing, no one in the U.S. are doing business like  that.

Firefrost and Atticus Welcome to Tmonews. I have a feeling its going to be either a Feature or a network upgrade that has a very special feature but i dont think its a merger..why didnt they divulge this info ahead of time...as much ninjas as there are out there we would find out way ahead of tmo's employee's or at least at the same time...i dont think its a merger, though im not completely dismissing the fact that it could be placeholder change from 4 to 3.

Thanks

I agree I don't think it will be a merger. I'm just hung up on the reports saying that it is supposed to be a game changer for T-mobile.

I don't see a network upgrade being the big announcment. Even if T-mobile said they are going to upgrade their network for everyone tomorrow, how many people will really leave their current carrier when Verizon and Sprint are right on the heels of 4g networks. I would think it would have to be some amazing phone or service that they are planning. Or maybe a combination of all of it, who knows. 

Would it be a "game changer" like this "game changer"?http://phandroid.com/2009/10/04/htc-dragon-to-breath-1ghz-of-android-fire/

It's not a merger.  You never tell your employees about the merger beforehand and you certainly wouldn't do training.  Too much chance for stock manipulation.  Those guys could run out and buy Sprint stock for example.

Mergers can be rumored, but the only people who actually know are company execs who are ironing out the details and their support personnel.  Once done it's announced and then changes happen.

Also a merger is usually not a cause for employee excitement as many employees are axed after merger.  Usually that's when employees keep their head down and home the grim reaper does not come to their office.  For that reason Project Black doesn't have anything to do with a merger. 

A merger doesn't require training so soon and if it was that Wall Street would have been buzzing about it.  TMobile is the only major carrier that doesn't have a vested interest in land lines and it's high time they started taking advantage of that but I don't see how a massive price drop in monthly plans is going to change much unless it's a huge change.  Even if they did something crazy like make text messaging free other carriers would just follow suit.

They could be going all-prepaid lol.

When is this news supposed to be released from T-Mobile?

Today. But where is it? Unless it was BB 8520 in white. Which they had to train their CS between telling the difference in titanium & white lol.

Well guys its right after two and still no word from ANY sources on what this may or may not be. My best guess is still a rate plan change or a set of rate plan changes but thats just my best guess, nothing solid in that info.

Well guys its right after two and still no word from ANY sources on what this may or may not be. My best guess is still a rate plan change or a set of rate plan changes but thats just my best guess, nothing solid in that info.

Well if it is that, it better be one heck of a rate plan change for all the hype it is getting now.