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T-Mobile News: Stock Sale, Cash Dividend, SailGP Partnership, & Q1 2025

By: Jasmin Espinas
June 17, 2025

T-Mobile remains one of the largest U.S. wireless carriers, with aggressive growth strategies and a consistent push to expand its market share. In recent T-Mobile news, SoftBank generated $4.8 billion by selling part of its stake in the company.

Alongside this move, T-Mobile has announced a new quarterly cash dividend, entered a partnership with SailGP, and released its Q1 2025 financial results.

Latest T-Mobile News: SoftBank Raises $4.8B from T-Mobile Stock Sale

Latest T-Mobile news reported that SoftBank raised $4.8 billion by selling 21.5 million T-Mobile shares at $224 each, based on a term sheet reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday, June 17.

$TMUS fell after reports that Japanese investment group SoftBank sold millions of T-Mobile shares at $224 each.

The deal reportedly raised $4.8 billion for SoftBank. pic.twitter.com/89unSyqiQY

— Schwab Network (@SchwabNetwork) June 17, 2025

The shares were priced just under the lower end of the $224–$228 range. They also closed about 3% below T-Mobile’s June 16 trading price of $230.99.

Still, the Japanese firm holds a significant stake and remains T-Mobile’s second-largest shareholder behind Deutsche Telekom.

According to LSEG, before the sale, SoftBank owned roughly 7.5 percent of the company, equivalent to 85.36 million shares valued at $22.76 billion.

This transaction follows a 2023 agreement with the Sprint-T-Mobile merger, which granted SoftBank $7.59 billion in T-Mobile stock after meeting specific terms.

Bloomberg first reported this share sale.

T-Mobile News: T-Mobile Declares $0.88 Cash Dividend Per Share

In another T-Mobile news, the company announced on June 5 that its board had approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.88 per share.

The payout applies to all outstanding common stock and is scheduled for distribution on September 11, 2025.

Shareholders must also be on record by August 29 to qualify.

T-Mobile News: T-Mobile 5G Powers SailGP Broadcast With Predictive AI Technology

T-Mobile has expanded its tech footprint in professional sports by returning to the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix on Governors Island on June 7 and 8.

As SailGP’s exclusive U.S. 5G partner, the company is deploying its Advanced Network Solutions package, including hybrid and private networks and network slicing.

This setup powers live operations, camera systems, and real-time analytics across the race.

These upgrades enable predictive AI to improve both broadcast quality and race management.

Dozens of wireless cameras now deliver live cockpit and race-level views, while autonomous buoys equipped with environmental sensors self-adjust between races.

At the system’s core, AI ingests and analyzes live race data to predict key moments and guide camera tracking in real time.

The same data also supports split-second officiating decisions at SailGP’s command center in London.

T-Mobile Reports Best-Ever Q1 Postpaid Growth and Financial Gains

T-Mobile released its Q1 2025 results on April 24, reporting record postpaid growth and strong financial performance overall.

The company added 1.3 million net postpaid customers, 495,000 postpaid phone lines, and 424,000 high-speed internet users.

Service revenue rose 5% year-over-year to $16.9 billion, while net income hit $3 billion, up 24%.

Core Adjusted EBITDA reached $8.3 billion, and free cash flow totaled $4.4 billion, both marking the company’s highest Q1 results to date.

T-Mobile also returned $3.5 billion to shareholders during the quarter.

On the network side, the company expanded its 5G Advanced rollout, hitting 6.3 GBPS in recent field tests.

Additionally, it launched the beta for T-Satellite, the only U.S. satellite service compatible with most modern smartphones.

As such, Opensignal named T-Mobile the global leader in download speed experience among carriers in large-landmass countries, making it the only provider worldwide to receive that distinction.

Separately, RootMetrics, part of Ookla, ranked T-Mobile first in 5G availability for the eighth consecutive time in its February 2025 report.

Conclusion

T-Mobile is advancing on multiple fronts. With record subscriber gains, expanding revenue, and consistent shareholder returns, the company is signaling strength in both its current model and future capacity.

However, the stock sale adds a layer of complexity. While it doesn’t reflect weakness in T-Mobile’s fundamentals, it introduces new dynamics around ownership and long-term positioning.

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