T-Mobile

T-Mobile

Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1990; 26 years ago
Headquarters Bonn, Germany
Area served
Europe, United States, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
Products Wireless PDAs, Cellular Telephones, Tablets
Services Mobile communications, DSL
Number of employees
36,000
Parent Deutsche Telekom
Subsidiaries T-Mobile US (66.6%)
Slogan The Un-Carrier

T-Mobile International AG is a German holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM, UMTS and LTE-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company has financial stakes in mobile operators in both Central and Eastern Europe.

The T-Mobile brand is present in 12 European countries – Austria, Croatia (as Hrvatski telekom), Czech Republic, Albania, Germany (as Telekom), Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, as well as the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was present in the United Kingdom up until 2015 when the brand was replaced by EE. Globally, T-Mobile International subsidiaries have a combined total of approximately 230 million subscribers. T-Mobile International is the world's fifteenth-largest  mobile-phone service provider by subscribers and the fourth-largest multinational after the UK's Vodafone, India's Airtel, and Spain's Telefónica.