T-Cell transferring tens of 1000’s of digital machines off VMware amid lawsuit

T-Cell is asking a New York courtroom to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to proceed supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

In its grievance, T-Cell stated it has tens of 1000’s of digital machines utilizing VMware software program throughout roughly 303,140 CPU cores. It additionally stated 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 assist 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 a number of, costlier bundles.

When T-Cell tried to increase assist for a 3rd yr for $5,288,398.45, Broadcom wouldn’t permit it, per an August 2025 submitting from T-Cell. A Broadcom consultant reportedly informed T-Cell through e-mail: “Broadcom introduced finish of accessible of all perpetual merchandise, which incorporates Acknowledged Out Yr Renewals for perpetual assist.”

A decide granted T-Cell an injunction that allowed it to obtain assist companies from October 2025 by way of August 3, 2026, for $5.28 million, plus the posting of a $500,000 enterprise.

Now, T-Cell seeks a declaration that it was entitled to resume assist companies and additional aid because the courtroom deems mandatory.