T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert is stepping down

T-Mobile is replacing Mike Sievert arsenic CEO much than 5 years aft helium took connected the role. The mobile carrier’s main operating officer, Srini Gopalan, volition go CEO connected November 1st, portion Sievert volition go vice chairman.

Sievert took implicit for the outspoken John Legere pursuing T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint successful 2020. While astatine the helm, Sievert has overseen galore acquisitions, including T-Mobile’s acquisition of Mint Mobile, which was partially owned by Ryan Reynolds, arsenic good arsenic its statement to buy astir of US Cellular. Earlier this year, the bearer axed its diversity, equity, and inclusivity policies to get FCC Chair Brendan Carr to o.k. an acquisition of the fibre marque Lumos.

T-Mobile appointed Gopalan arsenic COO successful March 2025. Gopalan antecedently spent implicit 8 years arsenic a committee subordinate astatine Deutsche Telecom, and held enforcement positions astatine Vodafone and the Indian mobile telecom supplier Bharti Airtel. In June, Sievert denied reports that helium planned to measurement down from his relation earlier the extremity of his declaration successful April 2028, though helium admitted that T-Mobile hired Gopalan “with the thought of succession readying successful mind.”

Gopalan volition assistance pb T-Mobile’s “strategic inaugural to go the astir data-driven, AI-enabled, digital-first institution successful the industry,” according to the property release. “Our civilization and marque person made america the astir admired and customer-centric institution successful our industry,” Gopalan says. “What lies up of america is adjacent much breathtaking due to the fact that implicit the past 5 years, we person built America’s champion web unneurotic with integer and AI capabilities that are acold up of anyone other successful our industry.”