T-Mobile Inks Pact With National Diversity Coalition on Pending Sprint Takeover

The National Diversity Coalition and T-Mobile agreed the carrier will boost diversity if its Sprint takeover is approved. “The two entities discussed ways to collaborate, along with other community groups, on a number of initiatives focused on serving low-income communities and expanding the company’s planned diversity initiatives,” NDC said Thursday. A T-Mobile council of non-employees from “African American, Asian, Latino, Native American and LGBTQ communities, as well as persons with disabilities and women,” will advise on a plan. The announcement Friday said T-Mobile “affirmed a commitment to diversity among its board and workforce recruitment” and to increase diverse spending in California to at minimum meet the Public Utilities Commission’s goal of 21.5 percent spending with diverse businesses. T-Mobile said Friday it will release Q4 results Thursday. An analyst call with CEO John Legere and other executives starts at 8:30 a.m. EST. T-Mobile is the last of the four major national wireless carriers to report.