Exhibit 5.1
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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP | |  |
September 26, 2024
T-Mobile US, Inc.
T-Mobile USA, Inc.
12920 SE 38th Street
Bellevue, WA 98006
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to T-Mobile USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), T-Mobile US, Inc., a Delaware corporation and the direct parent of the Company (the “Parent Guarantor”), the subsidiaries of the Company listed on Schedule I hereto (together with the Parent Guarantor, the “DE Guarantors”) and the subsidiaries of the Company listed on Schedule II hereto (the “Non-DE Guarantors” and, collectively with the DE Guarantors, the “Guarantors”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-271553), initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on May 1, 2023 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed on September 11, 2023 and Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 thereto, filed on September 23, 2024 (the “Registration Statement”), with respect to the issuance of $700,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Debt Securities”) and the guarantees by the Guarantors thereof (the “2029 Guarantees”), $900,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.700% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Debt Securities”) and the guarantees by the Guarantors thereof (the “2035 Guarantees”) and $900,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.250% Senior Notes due 2055 (the “2055 Debt Securities”, and together with the 2029 Debt Securities and the 2035 Debt Securities, the “Debt Securities”) and the guarantees by the Guarantors thereof (the “2055 Guarantees” and, together with the 2029 Guarantees and the 2035 Guarantees, the “Guarantees”). The Debt Securities and the Guarantees are being offered and sold in a public offering pursuant to an underwriting agreement dated September 23, 2024, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters (the “Underwriting Agreement”).
The Debt Securities and the Guarantees have been issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of September 15, 2022 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Company, the Parent Guarantor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2024 (the “Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, with respect to the 2029 Debt Securities and the 2029 Guarantees, as further supplemented by the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2024 (the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, with respect to the 2035 Debt Securities and the 2035 Guarantees and as further supplemented by the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2024 (the “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, with respect to the 2055 Debt Securities and the 2055 Guarantees (the Base Indenture, as supplemented by the Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture, the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture and the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”).
In connection with this opinion, we have (i) investigated such questions of law, (ii) examined the originals or certified, conformed, electronic or reproduction copies of such agreements, instruments, documents and records of the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries, such certificates of public officials and such other documents and (iii) received such information from officers and representatives of the Company, the Guarantors, their subsidiaries and others, in each case, as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion. We examined, among other documents, the following:
(a) an executed copy of the Underwriting Agreement;
(b) an executed copy of the Base Indenture;
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