MetroPCS Texas, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company and an operating subsidiary of the U.S. prepaid wireless carrier MetroPCS. Per SEC subsidiary filings, it was wholly owned by MetroPCS Wireless, Inc., which was in turn wholly owned by MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS). MetroPCS was founded in 1994 by Roger D. Linquist and Malcolm Lorang, and was headquartered in Richardson, Texas. Its corporate parent was acquired by T-Mobile USA in a reverse merger completed May 1, 2013, creating T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), which is roughly 74%-owned by Deutsche Telekom AG. MetroPCS Texas, LLC appears on T-Mobile US's subsidiary list as of December 31, 2023. The brand was rebranded "Metro by T-Mobile" in 2018. Size figures belong to the parent, not this entity: pre-merger MetroPCS reported roughly $4 billion+ in 2010 revenue and about 9 million subscribers at the time of the merger.
Operations. MetroPCS is a no-contract, prepaid wireless service provider offering talk, text, and data plans to value-conscious consumers through company stores, authorized dealers, and national retail channels. It historically operated its own CDMA/EVDO and early LTE networks using PCS and AWS spectrum before migrating customers onto T-Mobile's GSM/HSPA+/LTE network. This LLC is an operating/network subsidiary, not a patent-holding shell.
Litigation posture. The tracked record shows zero plaintiff cases and one defendant case: MetroPCS Texas, LLC is an operating company defending against a patent-assertion suit, not an NPE. The single case sits in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas (Tyler Division), a common venue for patent plaintiffs in that era.
Notable case. Fenner Investments, Ltd. v. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS Communications, Inc., MetroPCS Wireless, Inc., and MetroPCS Texas, LLC (No. 6:11-cv-00348, E.D. Tex., filed July 6, 2011). Fenner Investments, a closely held Richardson, Texas patent-holding company, has filed numerous patent suits in Tyler against technology vendors (Microsoft, Nintendo, Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Ericsson). The case asserted U.S. Patent No. 5,561,706, covering personal communications services (PCS) user-identification and billing systems. The court construed "personal identification number" narrowly, and the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment of non-infringement on February 12, 2015.