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T-Mobile Cuts Its Own TV Cord, Moves to Partner With YouTube TV
- Phone giant scraps big plans for disruptive new TV service
- New strategy is selling Google’s live-TV service at $10 off
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T-Mobile US Inc. will shut down its TVision live-TV service and offer Google’s YouTube TV at a promotional discount, ending a three-year effort to create a disruptive alternative to cable.
Customers “don’t want more streaming services -- they want help buying and navigating the services that already exist,” T-Mobile Chief Executive Officer Mike Sievert wrote in a blog post Monday.