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T-Mobile TV to Offer Amazon Prime

T-Mobile and Amazon are bringing Prime Video to TVision Home, the carrier’s rebranded version of Layer3 TV. T-Mobile sees the service as an alternative to cable and promoted its TV offering as part of its arguments for regulators to approve…

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the company buy of Sprint. TVision customers with a Prime membership will have access to the programming. “5G will transform entertainment, and the New T-Mobile will transform 5G if our merger with Sprint is approved,” said T-Mobile President Mike Sievert. Wells Fargo’s Jennifer Fritzsche told investors Wednesday TVision is more than a “Hail Mary” pass to win approval for the Sprint deal. This plan will move forward with or without” Sprint, she thinks. The service will be available starting Sunday in T-Mobile stores and online in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and Longmont, Colorado, at $90 monthly for +150 channels, she said. T-Mobile’s TV offering isn’t very disruptive, wrote BTIG’s Walter Piecyk. “T-Mobile is offering a service that is nearly identical to those from existing providers, even down to the remote control, which actually has legacy cable buttons of red, green, yellow and blue,” he said. “The price point is not compelling at $100 per month.”