T-Mobile's streaming TV service will include Viacom channels

T-Mobile plans to launch its own TV offering later this year, and the company is clear about its goal: to replace cable. TV programming has never been better, but customers are tired of rising costs, hidden fees, miserable customer service, non-stop BS, says CEO John Legere in a statement.

While T-Mobile is a little late for the TV game in the home, which has these Viacom channels, it will give a significant advantage. YouTube TV is completely missing Viacom channels. PlayStation Vue dropped the Viacom channels it had, and Hulu only offers some of the channels in its on-demand library. No one has perfected home TV streaming, so if T-Mobile gets its product right and exploits its marketing and bundle power, it can be in good shape.

The company previously explained that it will "uncarrier" TV in the same way as the wireless service ̵[ads1]1; that is, getting rid of year-long contracts, inflated bundles, outdated technology and poor customer service. That strategy seems to work in the mobile world. T-Mobile said the end of 2018 was the "best quarter ever", with a net addition of 2.4 million subscribers. We see if the customers are so eager to skip to the "uncarrier" model when used on TV.