It’s official: T-Mobile USA Inc. will begin offering the Apple iPhone and other Apple products in 2013, the last of the four major US carriers to offer the iOS mobile device. T-Mobile parent-company Deutsche Telekom AG announced the agreement in a statement earlier today.

“A certain number of people wouldn’t come to our stores if we didn’t have the iPhone,” T-Mobile CEO John Legere said.

“We worked very hard for a deal that made sense to us.”

The iPhone was originally only available in the US through AT&T, but is now the most widely available smartphone in the country. Its sales outnumber all handsets using Google Inc.’s Android software combined in the 12 weeks leading up to Oct. 28, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. T-Mobile has struggled to keep customers from drifting to other carriers that offered the Apple smartphone, losing roughly 1 million customers per month—4 percent of its subscriber base—since the end of 2011.

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