Today, we’ve finally seen a major change since T-Mobile acquired MetroPCS way back in 2013. At the time, MetroPCS was a CDMA network whose bandwidth was slowly recommissioned to improve T-Mobile’s own towers. The transition made it so Metro PCS customers were connected to T-Mobile’s improved network but both T-Mobile and Metro PCS would remain separate brands.
Today, T-Mobile announces that Metro PCS will now be called “Metro by T-Mobile”. Along with this re-branding, Metro is updating its rate plans by replacing its tiered data plans with two main unlimited plans starting at $50 ($60 for…