Deutsche Telekom Considering Sprint Nextel Bid

There are actually a few main reasons why this wont happen of course anything can though
1. Technology risk; CDMA, IDEN, GSM, Wimax, and LTE are all at the playing field; very tough and very expensive to figure out what to do
2. Regulatory hurdles: they will control a lot of areas when it comes to spectrum so divestitures will be a must.
3. Execution: executing number 1 will be very difficult as evident by the Sprint and Nextel ongoing issues.
4. Financial: DT doesn’t have the funds to pay for Sprint.

There are several reasons why the FCC would not approve such an acquisition by a foreign company.
First and foremost vodaphone already has a he chunk of the US wireless market and you combine that with dutche’s t-mobile and half the wireless customers in the us are owned by foreign entities. If you add Sprint to the list, that makes roughly two thirds of all wireless service in the US owned by foreign entities.
Then of course there are the obvious treats to national security that the merger would pose. Sprint currently has several major contracts with the DOD, DOJ, and Homeland security. The most obvious of which is the nationwide contract with Nextel for wireless services. While having a foreign company provide this service does no...
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Old news. Rumours like this have been heard of in the past and did not come into frutition. The FCC would never approve this anyway and even if they would, it would be extremlely confusing and problematic and not in the best interest of the DT, Sprint-Nextel and the subscribers of both networks. So just settle down, pour yourslf a cup coffee, mow the lawn, walk the dog. Not gonna happen

Deutsche could not afford Sprint at this point and time, nor could they raise the capital in this global economy. Nor could they afford the merger of these two technologies.

All this is, is a rumor to drive down interest in Sprint and hurt their stock price at a time when T-Mobile USA is falling short on competitive offerings and is loosing ground with having competitive devices to offer.

A childish ploy by T-Mobile to reinvigorate interest in thier small company.

Very sad.

I suppose this would mean the end of WiMax, as I understand that T-Mo is looking at LTE for a 4G network. Or, if the asquisition happened, would it mean T-Mo would switch to WiMax support and further splinter the whole 4G madness? I guess we'll see if this whole shenanigans actually goes through. I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing WiMax disappear. Then every carrier would begin deploying LTE and we could see, with roaming agreements of course, ridiculous data speeds and coverage nation-wide.

Wow, totally unexpected from Deutsche Telekom, and also considerating to even merging T-mobile USA with Sprint, Im really surprised about it. 😲 😳 😲 😳 😲 😳 😲 😲 😳

With the backing of a huge parent co. like DT, T-mobile and Sprint might really have the potential to become an incredible player in the US market.

No one thought T-mobile would get as big as they did in the US, but they did. The path they have taken has been a long one, but they really are kicking some major tail.

As far as the FCC is concerned, it would make no sense to stop the acquisition based on anti-monopoly laws... tmo/sprint would still be #3 and they didn't care all too much about the verizon alltell thing. and honestly, they are too busy with worrying about managing the iPhones app store and making sure you completely wipe your *** before getting off the toilet to do anything.

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I have no idea what these guys are doing. Sprint's footprint is no better than their own. They should have targeted Alltel as I suggested previously.

https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »

Long before the private equity firm purchased Alltel and then held it for Verizon, T-Mobile could have gotten them. Add to this the fact that the FCC is now controlled by the Democrats and I don't know if this merger would even be allowed.

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Sprint-Nextel has been a complete mess since the "merger" they can't really make their minds up on what to do with Iden.....now lets get GSM in the mix with T-Mobile....even bigger headache.

1. This would give them access to a CDMA network which means:
a. More roaming income from other CDMA carriers.
b. T-Mobile USA could get GSM/CDMA capable handsets which would allow T-Mobile customers to roam on Verizon which would expand T-Mobile coverage.

2. Another possibility is that T-Mobile could take its US market to CDMA and sell off or collect roaming revenue from its GSM network. Or it could stay with GSM and use the CDMA network for roaming and or for MVNOs who wish to use the former Sprint network.

1) This would leave AT&T as the only major American owned carrier.

2) Technologically speaking, this would be a nightmare. Remember how smooth the Sprint Nextel merger went? Exactly.

3) I don't want to say T-Mobile worldwide is a bad carrier, but they are.

4) Sprint is our last remaining independent carrier that isn't tied in with some major phone company. Sprint has screwed up in the past but I think they're on the right track now.

Way to go T-Mobile. Looking to make some big moves. I was told what Deutsche Telekom does in the UK does not effect T-Mobile USA, this new post however says different.

I never really thought about T-Mobile/Sprint & Nextel. This could go in any direction.

Can you imagine a MyTouch with PTT, Myfaves, Free-Incoming and Sprints new Mobile-to-Mobile? on Sprints 4G network with T-Mobiles customer service department.

I'm dreaming. Anyway, this is a very interesting bit of news. Without detail one can imagine infinite possibilities. Thanks for the news.

TMO USA hasn’t been doing as well as yesteryear, especially with (most recently) very competitive pricing plans from other carriers who are ‘Top tear’ carriers.
Once upon a time TMO USA was known as a low cost…you get more than your paying for carrier. But lately they’ve been suffering an identity crisis, slow 3G roll out, small native coverage, prices have slowly crept up, no WOW factor phones like the iPhone, BB Storm, or the Pre.
Plus doesn’t Vodafone own like 45% of Verizon, so it might not be all bad.

I will believe it when I see it. For the past five years, every year theres a different story about who is going to buy Sprint.

If this happens then Deutsche Telekom would have bought Sprint Nextel who bought Virgin Mobile who bought Helio

ok so would they change SprintNextels name to Tmobile, or tmobile to sprint or keep them both ... and what about having 3 Networks that would be crazy.