T-Cellular is asking a New York courtroom to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to proceed supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
In its criticism, T-Cellular mentioned it has tens of 1000’s of digital machines utilizing VMware software program throughout roughly 303,140 CPU cores. It additionally mentioned that it was migrating off VMware however famous the time-consuming and technical challenges concerned in migrating over 1,000 purposes.
It filed its lawsuit, which was first reported by The Register in the present day, within the Supreme Court docket of the State of New York in August 2025 (PDF).
The cellular firm claimed that in 2023, it purchased perpetual VMware licenses, plus two years of help with the choice to purchase a 3rd yr. However after Broadcom purchased VMware, it stopped gross sales of VMware perpetual licenses in favor of subscriptions and began bundling VMware merchandise into just a few, costlier bundles.
When T-Cellular tried to increase help for a 3rd yr for $5,288,398.45, Broadcom wouldn’t enable it, per an August 2025 submitting from T-Cellular. A Broadcom consultant reportedly instructed T-Cellular by way of e-mail: “Broadcom introduced finish of obtainable of all perpetual merchandise, which incorporates Acknowledged Out Yr Renewals for perpetual help.”
A choose granted T-Cellular an injunction that allowed it to obtain help providers from October 2025 via August 3, 2026, for $5.28 million, plus the posting of a $500,000 enterprise.
Now, T-Cellular seeks a declaration that it was entitled to resume help providers and additional reduction because the courtroom deems mandatory.
