T-Mobile is 8 Months Behind U.S. Cellular in Its Plans to Disrupt 'Big Cable'

India, March 21 -- and the offering is virtually identical to what U.S. Cellular launched almost a year ago.

Nonetheless, T-Mobile is seeking to position the action as a first step by the company toward "home broadband disruption," part of its attempts to "take the fight to Big Cable."

More broadly, T-Mobile's pilot of LTE fixed wireless technology is part of the operator's efforts to gain regulatory approval for its proposed merger with Sprint. And T-Mobile is making no secret about that: "Due to LTE network and spectrum capacity constraints, the T-Mobile Home Internet pilot is limited by invitation-only to existing customers in specific areas, with the goal of reaching 50,000 households by the end of the year -- or slightly less than 0....