T-Mobile opens new tech hub in Hyderabad, plans to hire 1,000 in India

US telecom giant T-Mobile has opened a new technology and innovation hub in Hyderabad, India, with plans to hire around 1,000 employees as the centre ramps up over the coming months. The company says the Hyderabad facility will support its global engineering, network and digital-services operations, joining a growing list of major international telecom and technology firms that have set up large engineering centres in Indian cities in recent years. The move comes as India continues positioning itself as a hub for global technology talent, helped along by continued government investment in digital infrastructure — including the National Broadband Mission's push to connect roughly 270,000 villages with high-speed broadband through a mix of optical fiber, satellite links and accelerated rural 5G rollouts by 2030, and a Union Budget allocation of more than ₹460 crore toward telecom security infrastructure, including a new satellite-communication monitoring facility tied to the planned arrival of Starlink and other low-earth-orbit satellite operators in the Indian market. Industry watchers see T-Mobile's expansion as part of a broader trend of multinational telecom and tech firms treating India not just as a growth market for consumer services, but as a core location for engineering and product-development work that used to be concentrated in the US and Europe.