![]() ![]() In a statement announcing the sale, he made light of the fact that T-Mobile had defeated his mother Tammy Reynolds’ strong last-minute offer. Reynolds reportedly controls 25% of Mint Mobile, a low-cost cellular company that is a part of the $1.35 billion transaction with T-Mobile. ![]() ![]() READ ALSO: Black’s Beach in San Diego- Boats Capsize Over Difficulties The second-largest US mobile carrier, T-Mobile, has agreed to buy a business that Reynolds has invested in, so the Deadpool actor should expect a sizable payment. He is still one of the highest-paid actors in the world and continues to perform in movies. In 2020, the Wrexham AFC co-owner sold a gin company he co-owned for an estimated $610 million. Ideally this was already done, as Mint hasn't exactly been unscathed by from hacker takeovers itself.Sale of Mint Mobile Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds is the most recent celebrity to amass wealth by astute financial decisions that are entirely unrelated to his on-screen playing roles.Īs a US telecom company made an offer to buy a smaller phone network that he holds a share in, the Canadian actor is expected to earn more than $300 million (£248 million). In the meantime, Mint Mobile customers who'll be caught up in this acquisition may want to ensure they've put all appropriate security measures in place to protect their device and account information. We've reached out to T-Mobile to learn how it plans to handle Mint data, but the company hasn't responded. Most recently, T-Mobile said someone abused an API to download the personal information of 37 million subscribers, including names, billing addresses, emails, phone numbers, date of birth, T-Mobile account numbers and more across post- and prepaid customer accounts. Millions of customer records have been stolen from T-Mobile since 2018, when two million records, including hashed passwords, were stolen from the carrier. T-Mobile has been a popular target for cybercriminals, or at least a very soft one, and with the latest theft reported in February has been subject to six data incidents in the past five years. "T-Mobile has assured me that our incredibly improvised and borderline reckless messaging strategy will also remain untouched," Reynolds said in a video that you can see below.Ī minty-fresh plug for those security holes Cheating carriers could cost web-starved Americans billions in subsidiesįor those wondering whether they can still count on Reynolds to produce his overplayed commercials don't worry: he'll be continuing to work in a creative capacity for Mint.Revealed: US telcos admit to storing, handing over location data.Crims steal data on 40 million T-Mobile US customers.BT's Ryan Reynolds helicopter Wi-Fi ads 'misleading', thunders ad watchdog.The tech transition the sale won't require much work at all, since Mint has operated as a virtual network operator on T-Mobile's own infrastructure since its founding in 2015. Mint and Ultra won't replace T-Mobile's existing prepaid offerings, the company said, and will operate alongside them for the moment. Once the merger is complete, Mint founders David Glickman and Rizwan Kassim will remain to manage the brands being purchased from Ka'ena, which T-Mobile said would generally operate as a separate business unit. ![]()
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