According to T-Mobile's merger plan, MetroCS customer will loose their service coverage once the merger is complete and MetroPCS towers are shut down.
T-Mobile's merger with MetroPCS will add 9 million more customers to the nation's smallest network, but will still lag behind Sprint significantly.
T-Mobile is owned by the German firm Deutsche Telekom AG and MetroPCS is based on Dallas, Texas.
T-Mobile plans to use MetroPCS's airwave frequencies and capacity to upgrade its own network and built its high speed LTE network.
