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T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

Ars Technica · Jul 1, 2026, 9:21 PM · Also reported by 2 other sources

T-Mobile is asking a New York court to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to continue supporting its VMware perpetual licenses. In its complaint, T-Mobile said it has tens of thousands of virtual machines using VMware software across approximately 303,140 CPU cores. It also said that it was migrating off VMware but noted the time-consuming and technical challenges involved in migrating over 1,000 applications. It filed its lawsuit, which was first reported by The Register today, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in August 2025 (PDF).Read full article Comments

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