In the United States, T-Mobile is a cellular telecommunications provider. It is wholly owned by Deutsche Telekom, itself based in Bonn, Germany, as part of its T-Mobile division. It was formed from 4 U.S. companies, VoiceStream Wireless, Aerial, Omni Point and Powertel (VoiceStream acquired Aerial, Omnipoint and Powertel before T-Mobile acquired it). In May 2001, VoiceStream was acquired by Deutsche Telekom for US$24 billion, and in September 2002 the combined U.S. company's name changed to T-Mobile. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, T-Mobile USA is currently the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. market, behind AT&T; Mobility, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel with 33.8 million customers as of the end of the third quarter of 2010 and annual revenue of US$21.53 billion for their 2009 fiscal year.
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Campaign Finance
$948,503 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
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Lobbying
$6,466,185 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
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Lobbying On Behalf of T-Mobile USA
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount Ogilvy Government Relations $420,000 Prime Policy Group $360,000 Steve Buyer Group $300,000 Quinn Gillespie & Assoc $300,000 Ryan, MacKinnon et al $240,000 Washington2 Advocates $220,000 Cassidy & Assoc $180,000 Golin/Harris International $170,000 Cauthen, Forbes & Williams $150,000 Putala Strategies $135,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Telecommunications,
- Taxes,
- Radio & TV Broadcasting,
- Tariffs,
- Defense,
- Veterans Affairs
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title S.543 Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011 H.R.1002 Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011 S.911 SPECTRUM Act H.R.1860 Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011 S.971 Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011 H.R.1521 West Hunter Street Baptist Church Study Act S.649 Scleroderma Research and Awareness Act S.28 Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act S.455 RADIOS Act S.522 Spectrum Relocation Improvement Act of 2011
Regulations
13 Mentions; 1 SubmissionsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "T-Mobile USA" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Mentions in Document Text
Advisory Committees
5 people on 4 committeesData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "T-Mobile USA" that sat on federal advisory committees.
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