T-Mobile CEO John Legere thrown out of rival's CES party
A PARTY-crashing tech CEO was shown the door last night after trolling his rivals at a bash for the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.
CEO of telecoms company T-Mobile, John Legere, was thrown out of a CES after party last night after he trolled the bash held by rival AT&T.
MORE: What is CES and what's the biggest gadgets and news from the show?
MORE: How to cook your dinner with your mobile
Legere, brazenly turned up to the party at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas wearing a bright pink T-shirt with his company's logo on it, according to website Re/code.
Hosts AT&T didn't take too kindly to the appearance and had security remove him from the premises.
Legere claimed he wasn't trying to make a scene but that he simply wanted to see the headline act, Macklemore, at the event.
"All of a sudden these gigantic goons said 'Can I talk to you over here,'" Legere said in an interview with Re/code outside the Venetian hotel after the event adding that he was told that if he didn't leave immediately he would be charged with trespassing.
Legere also lamented that AT&T had spent a "small fortune" on the party and that he could have cut prices with all that money.
The germ-killing mobile screen will keep your calls clean
T-Mobile and AT&T are fierce rivals in the US telecoms market and this isn't the first time Legere has tried to get under the skin of his competition.
But AT&T had the last laugh. The company announcement last night that it would be replacing T-Mobile as Audi's provider of wireless services for its cars.