Wireless provider T-Mobile is once again offering most of its eligible customers a free annual subscription to Major League Baseball’s (MLB) premium streaming service.
Starting this week, customers who have access to the T-Life app can sign up for a one-year subscription to MLB TV (stylized as MLB.TV) via the T-Mobile Tuesdays customer loyalty program. The streaming service, which typically costs $150 per year, offers access to baseball games played on regional sports networks and local TV stations beyond a customer’s home area. Most postpaid T-Mobile customers and select Metro by T-Mobile prepaid customers are eligible to receive the beenfit.
It is the 10th consecutive year that T-Mobile has offered a free annual pass to MLB TV to its subscribers. The company has enjoyed a long partnership with MLB, which includes brand sponsorship opportunities during televised games and at baseball stadiums, along with technological support powered by T-Mobile 4G LTE and 5G wireless networks.
This year, T-Mobile says it has enhanced its partnership with MLB by helping the league roll out a new automated ball-strike system (ABS) that is powered by the company’s private 5G advanced network solution (ANS).
“At T-Mobile, every sports and entertainment partnership is about pushing the boundaries of innovation with our industry-leading 5G network and delivering more to our customers,” said Mike Katz, the President of Marketing, Strategy and Products at T-Mobile. “That’s exactly what we’re doing by powering 5G-enabled ABS in Major League Baseball — demonstrating how our 5G network can support partners like MLB — in addition to giving our customers a front-row seat to all the baseball action this season with the return of free MLB.TV.”
T-Mobile and MLB have been testing the ABS powered by its ANS over the past two years, though the tests were limited to a handful of minor league clubs and games. This will be the first year that the technology is brought to MLB, the companies said.
