T-Mobile seeks court order to extend 303140-core VMware perpetual support amid Broadcom subscription shift

T-Mobile filed suit in New York Supreme Court in August 2025 after Broadcom rejected a $5288398.45 third-year support extension on 2023 perpetual licenses. The carrier obtained a temporary injunction granting support through August 2026. Court documents detail the scale of the installed base and the contractual dispute over stated-out-year renewals. T-Mobile's filing records the migration timeline and technical debt across 303140 cores. Comparable patterns appear in Dell and Broadcom 10-Q disclosures showing accelerated subscription conversions post-2023 acquisition. Migration velocity metrics from prior VMware-to-alternative projects indicate 18-24 month cycles for equivalent core counts at Fortune 100 scale. The case accelerates documented enterprise exits from VMware perpetual estates. Procurement records from 2024-2025 show parallel moves at other carriers and financial services firms citing identical bundle pricing and end-of-perpetual policies. Lock-in exposure now factors directly into multi-year cloud contract negotiations rather than remaining an after-the-fact operational issue.