T-Mobile Recruits Its Own Customers in Latest Attack on Rivals

Poaching from Sprint

T-Mobile is looking to take advantage of Sprint's broken "Framily," encouraging its customers to recruit rival customers with the promise of faster data for free for a year. T-Mobile’s promotion, announced today, comes two weeks after merger talks between the two companies were called off and just days after Sprint released its own incentive plan to win customers from competitor carriers.

T-Mobile said it would reward subscribers who "rescue" users from Sprint—Verizon and AT&T, too—with a free upgrade to unlimited LTE data for a year.

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