Late last year, T-Mobile announced its intentions to "uncarrier" television service, with its purchase of Layer3, an online TV provider. The first fruits of this acquisition have just re-entered their head at the FCC in the form of a new T-Mobile-branded set-top box.

FCC filings do not include a whole lot of information, but we do not know that it has 2.4 / 5GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (BLE, based on the description included in one of the internal images).

According to the Installation Guide, the hardware has the formal and incredibly imaginative name "T-MOBILE MINI_ VM3011C." It has a remote, well, but it is not included with the filing, but there is a truncated image of one end of it in the PDF Installation Guide:

Although it does not appear to be a coaxial connection on any of the product images, the manual also makes mention of an ANT IN input for use with terrestrial antennas, so it's possible that there could be a built-in tuner as well – though I'm more likely to believe the manual is simply in error.

Other inputs include Ethernet, USB, and HDMI, plus the required HDMI output.

Humorously enough, T-Mobile's ODM requested confidentiality on many of the internal schematics but did not seem to care when it came to the installation.

We still do not know how much this unit might cost, or what T-Mobile plans to charge for its TV service, but given the hardware is making its way through the FCC, we will probably be hearing more about it. so on. And with how fast cable TV prices are rising, it can not get here quickly enough.

T-Mobile Layer3 set-top box (MINI_ VM3011C) manual by Ryne Hager on Scribd