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T-Mobile lost more of its loyal wireless customers in 2025 than the year before, forcing the carrier to rethink its strategy. Amid customer losses and market pressure, the company is reshaping its operations as it fights to keep customers from switching.

In November last year, Srini Gopalan became T-Mobile’s new CEO. Before officially stepping into the role, he announced his plan to digitally transform the company during an earnings call in October, a move he claims will elevate the customer experience.

“The amount of friction and frustration we cause customers today because of our processes and the state of evolution in this industry is phenomenal,” said Gopalan. “We have a huge opportunity to change that with our digital transformation.”

This plan involves ramping up artificial intelligence initiatives and reportedly making customers dependent solely on the company’s T-Life app for new lines, upgrades, account activations and more, sparking concerns among some employees that this change will lead to layoffs.

T-Mobile later began laying off an unknown number of employees in December, affecting account executives and sales managers.

After T-Mobile’s postpaid phone churn (customer losses as a percentage) increased to 0.93% in 2025, up from 0.86% in 2024, the carrier continued to eliminate jobs.

By January, it conducted additional rounds of layoffs in retail, end-user support, resource planning, product, sales and business departments.

That same month, it also cut 393 jobs at multiple worksite locations in Washington state, impacting analysts, managers, directors, engineers and senior account executives.

In a statement to TheStreet in January, T-Mobile confirmed it is making “some changes” to respond “faster to a dynamic market” and better serve customers.

T-Mobile lays off more employees amid strategic shift

Now, T-Mobile has quietly trimmed its workforce once again. This time, the job cuts reportedly took place in its IT department, according to a recent report from GeekWire.

A source told GeekWire that the layoffs impacted hundreds of employees. In a statement to the news outlet, T-Mobile did not confirm the number of layoffs but said that it is doubling down on “growth and innovation.”

“To move even faster in a dynamic market while continuing to deliver best-in-class digital experiences for our customers, we’re further aligning our IT organization to support future growth and innovation,” said T-Mobile in a statement to GeekWire. “This includes the difficult decision of eliminating some roles while continuing to invest and hire in areas.”

While the exact number of job cuts is unknown, a recent post on TheLayoff.com claims T-Mobile laid off 600 employees who worked under Jeff Simon, T-Mobile’s chief information officer. His teams handle T-Mobile’s digital product experiences, enterprise systems and billing.

Another TheLayoff.com post claimed that several T-Life employees who worked under Kevin Lau, the vice president of web and mobile engineering at T-Mobile, were also laid off.

The latest round of job cuts comes as T-Mobile expects to generate $3 billion in savings by 2027 from its artificial intelligence and digital initiatives. Gopalan said during an earnings call in February that these initiatives aren’t intended to result in layoffs.

“We haven’t driven digital and AI from a ‘we’re going to lay off this many thousand people because we need the cost from it,’” said Gopolan. “This is why this has been a three-year journey.”

“Step one was building the capabilities, having our IT in place, having the digital in place,” he continued. “Step two was customer adoption, which is actually working with customers in moving them to assisted digital. And step three is now scaling.”

In a statement to TheStreet, RTMNexus CEO Dominick Miserandino said it is clear that T-Mobile’s latest job cuts aren’t about shrinking the company, since it continues to hire, but rather about “fundamentally changing what a T-Mobile employee actually does.”

“T-Mobile is in the middle of a massive strategic pivot, and these IT cuts are the clearest signal yet of where they’re placing their bets,” said Miserandino. “When a company does multiple rounds of layoffs in a year while simultaneously ramping up AI investment, it’s not just a ‘restructuring’ – it’s a complete retooling of their operational DNA.”

“They’re trying to balance the books against rising churn by betting that automation can handle the heavy lifting,” he continued.

T-Mobile is cutting more jobs as its CEO, Srini Gopalan, enforces “digital transformation” at the company.

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T-Mobile follows industry-wide trend in tech

T-Mobile’s job cuts contribute to the growing trend of tech companies shrinking their workforces. Amazon, for example, cut 16,000 employees in January to “strengthen” its organization by “reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.”

Last week, Meta laid off several hundred employees across multiple departments, including sales, global operations, recruiting, Facebook and Reality Labs last week, as it heavily invests in AI.

Spectrum, which is owned by Charter Communications, also laid off 313 employees on March 21 due to it closing its call center in Appleton, Wisconsin.

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According to a recent report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas,11,039 tech industry job cuts were announced in February alone, bringing the total layoffs in the sector to 33,330 in 2026, up 51% year-over-year.

Only 576 job cuts in February stemmed from the telecommunications industry, which is higher than the 178 layoffs the sector announced during the same month last year. As of February, there have been 654 telecom job cuts this year.

Andy Challenger, workplace expert and chief revenue officer at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said in the report that “tech is responding to a number of pressures right now.”

“AI is the big story, but there are also global regulatory concerns, a slowdown in digital advertising driven by tariffs and economic uncertainty, and higher costs to both employ workers and access funding, forcing companies to make difficult decisions,” said Challenger.

Layoffs nationwide slowed in February, despite elevated job cuts in the tech industry, but hiring remains challenged.

How many jobs U.S. employers eliminated in February 2026:

U.S. employers announced 48,307 job cuts in February,a 55% drop from January’s 108,435.
Store, unit, and department closures were the main reason for the cuts (10,736),followed closely by market/economic conditions (10,114), restructuring efforts (9,146) and cost-cutting (5,636).
Artificial intelligence accounted for 4,680 job cuts in February, roughly 10% of the month’s total.
Hiring plans fell to 12,755 in February, down 63% from the same time period last year. Source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas

“February’s dip is a nice reprieve from the elevated job cut plans to start the year,” said Challenger. “With U.S. involvement in a growing war in Iran, the end of Q1 may bring more layoff plans as companies tighten belts amid uncertainty and higher costs.”