T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Resigns

Philipp Humm has resigned as CEO of T-Mobile USA, Deutsche Telekom's mobile business in the USA. Jim Alling, Chief Operating Officer of T-Mobile USA, will take over the duties of CEO on an interim basis while a search is underway.

Humm is going to pursue a career outside of Deutsche Telekom so as to reunite with his family, which stayed back in Europe. Humm joined Deutsche Telekom in 2005, and was initially responsible for the company's mobile business in Germany. In 2008 he took on the responsibility of managing the sales and service activities of the European mobile companies within Deutsche Telekom Group. In May 2010 he moved to T-Mobile USA., taking over as CEO in November of that year.

René Obermann thanked Humm for his contribution over the past seven years saying: "Philipp Humm has given the company some important initiatives over the past years: Under his leadership the cost situation at T-Mobile USA has vastly improved and he led the company during a difficult phase regarding the planned merger with AT&T." In terms of a potential successor Obermann said: "Now we need somebody who can convert initiatives into market-successes."


The new CEO Jim Alling has already sent an email to employees which can be read below...

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Alling sent the below email to T-Mobile USA employees.

As you just learned, Philipp Humm has decided to leave the business. On behalf of the senior leadership team I want to thank Philipp for his many contributions to T-Mobile USA.

As your interim CEO, I give you my commitment to continue our Challenger strategy and to lead this organization to positive growth. While we may be in a high-tech industry, I firmly believe T-Mobile is a people-based business. I have the utmost confidence in everyone at T-Mobile to not only deliver for our customers, but to support each other as we continue to build momentum around our strategy.


To recap a few top-of-mind highlights where we will continue to focus:

● Network modernization: We are making fast progress on our $4 billion 4G network evolution plan, including network modernization and deployment of long term evolution (LTE) service in 2013. In fact just this week you probably read the widespread news coverage about our agreement with Verizon, which once approved by regulators will improve our spectrum position in 15 of the top 25 markets.
● Building the brand. Our 'No More Mr. Nice Girl' advertising campaign evokes our Challenger spirit in the marketplace. We're seeing traction with our new expression – customers are taking another look at T-Mobile.
● Driving revenue in all our channels with additional focus on B2B and MVNO opportunities.

In closing, I want to thank you for everything you've already done to help achieve our progress and also thank you in advance for everything you will do to bring our Challenger strategy to life this year and beyond.

Best Regards,

Jim
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