T-Mobile wipes out DEI programs

T-Mobile is ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to get two big deals OK’d by regulators. In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, T-Mobile said it will end its DEI programs as it seeks regulatory approval for its UScellular and MetroNet transactions. “We have conducted a comprehensive review of T-Mobile’s policies, program, and activities, and pursuant to this review, T-Mobile is ending its DEI-related policies … not just in name, but in substance,” T-Mobile EVP and General Counsel Mark Nelson told the chairman in the letter. Nelson said T-Mobile recognizes the legal and policy landscape surrounding DEI has changed under federal law and “we remain fully committed to ensuring that T-Mobile does not have any policies or practices that enable invidious discrimination, whether in fulfillment of DEI or any other purpose,” Nelson wrote.