Telecom Intelligence: Week of May 27, 2024 T-Mobile agreed to buy the bulk of UScellular for $4.4 billion — customers, stores, and spectrum — effectively ending the era of the major regional carrier and pushing U.S. wireless one big step closer to a pure three-carrier market. The consolidation landed the same week the Affordable Connectivity Program died: the FCC formally closed the subsidy that had helped 23 million households afford internet, with no successor funded. And Live Nation confirmed what breach forums had been advertising for days — Ticketmaster's data on hundreds of millions of customers was stolen, the Snowflake credential wave's biggest casualty yet.