Bellevue, Washington-based wireless network T-Mobile laid off an undisclosed amount of corporate employees earlier this month shortly after its $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular.

T-Mobile said in a statement Wednesday it is “evolving” its IT organization and has offered impacted employees “support as they transition.”

T-Mobile did not say how many jobs companywide or in Washington were cut in this round of layoffs.

“As we continue to hire for hundreds of new roles, we have eliminated a small portion of positions to realign the focus and structure of some parts of the team,” the statement says.

T-Mobile’s recently closed acquisition of UScellular brought more than four million customers into its network plans.

UScellular was set to lay off over 4,000 employees in the transition, but worked with T-Mobile to allow more than half of those employees to transfer over to T-Mobile, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter filed by UScellular in Wisconsin.

The employees would be offered “a salary or wage rate and with benefits, that when taken as a whole, are no less favorable to these employees’ current salary or wage rate and benefits,” the letter states.

“We’re improving experiences for millions of UScellular and T-Mobile customers and adding more amazing employees to the T-Mobile family to help us do it,” Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile said in a news release after the deal closed.

T-Mobile, employed around 70,000 people globally in 2024, in retail, network, customer support and administration, according to its most recent earnings report.

In 2023, T-Mobile cut more than 400 Bellevue-based employees during a larger layoff of nearly 7% of its workforce.

It still was the second largest employer in Bellevue, behind Microsoft, with around 6,300 employees, according to the city’s 2023 economic data

The company, one of the top three wireless carriers in the U.S., reported $66.2 billion in service revenue last year, up 5% from the previous year.

Last month, T-Mobile also completed its acquisition of Metronet, a telecommunications company, in a joint venture with KKR, a global investment firm. T-Mobile invested $4.9 billion to acquire a 50% equity stake in the joint venture.

T-Mobile ended its diversity, equity and inclusion programs in early July to get the Federal Communications Commission approval for the two recent acquisitions, according to Reuters.

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