T-Mobile’s connection to Grapevine-based Patriot Mobile sparks a backlash

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T-Mobile’s connection to Grapevine-based Patriot Mobile sparks a backlash
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The wireless giant says it has no influence over Patriot’s operations and simply rents excess capacity on its networks to the smaller company.

Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile, which also has a campus in Frisco, says it has no influence over Patriot’s operations and simply rents excess capacity on its networks to the smaller company.T-Mobile US Inc. is coming under scrutiny for its business relationship with a small wireless carrier that’s helped fund a conservative takeover of several North Texas school boards.

The situation highlights the risk to companies when they take positions on hot-button cultural issues, as well as the expectations consumers have for those firms to maintain consistent political messaging. In March, some Walt Disney employees protested Chief Executive Officer Bob Chapek’s attempt to stay neutral on Florida legislation that limited classroom discussions of homosexuality.

“Some of the stuff that you see out there is really mortifying,” said Story, who has three teenage children in North Texas suburban schools. “If it makes a 40-year-old man blush, it’s going to be wrong for a 6-year-old.” Yeager won with 71% of the vote. He said Patriot Mobile Action was helpful but that he already had a base of supporters from when he ran in a special election six months prior for an open board seat.

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