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Deutsche Telekom Considering Sprint Nextel Bid

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Tell Uncle Fritz "NEIN!"

bluecoyote

Sep 13, 2009, 2:00 PM
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.
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Jarahawk

Sep 13, 2009, 2:56 PM
1. Verizon Wireless is 55% owned by Verizon Communications and 45% by Vodaphone.

2. Dual mode CDMA/GSM phone would do the trick. The Tour supports both.
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Joshmo

Sep 13, 2009, 7:37 PM
re to 2:

Handsets wouldn't be the issue. The issue would come from running two seperate networks. From a cost/benefit standpoint it would make less sense than a consolidated network.

You'd run into issues of network overlaps, and areas were you'd have towers in place but some of your customers couldn't use them due to either having a CDMA or GSM handset (because so few handsets have support for both GSM and CDMA)
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SprintCC

Sep 14, 2009, 9:39 AM
It wouldn't be two networks, it would be three. Let's not forget that Sprint is currently operating CDMA and iDEN networks. Adding GSM to that would ensure that T-Mobile covered the spectrum.

But in honesty, I don't see T-Mobile USA actually coming up with the money to make this happen. It is a network that is hurting. DT tying up all of their available capital to buy the Sprint network doesn't make much sense.
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justcallitanight

Sep 14, 2009, 10:36 AM
I could see them eventually adopting a single technology and phasing out others, there has been much talk regarding restricting iDEN to public safetly so that would be a no brainer to sell, GSM or CDMA remains to be seen.

While I agree T-Mobile is not strong enough to make something like this happen, they are not the true player, Deutsche Telekom is, and that is a company with much more strength than what we give them credit for as we in the US associate them with T-Mobile.
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SprintCC

Sep 14, 2009, 1:31 PM
DT is a strong company, but I don't know that they're strong enough to throw that much money into the market to remain the third largest provider in the U.S. If we were talking about them making a play for a major part of AT&T or Verizon I would understand. But this doesn't make sense for them.

And from Sprint's prospective, they would actually need to pay above the listed price. Sprint is pretty confident that with signature devices, a lower cost point than the competition, and a dramatic improvement in customer service scores over the last year Sprint is feeling confident that they can make some pretty big gains. Selling that away at the reported market value doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Menno

Sep 13, 2009, 3:27 PM
Yeah, the technology issue wouldn't be that big. The Nextel thing was a botched merger, not an example of a typical merger.
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ATnT Nokia

Sep 13, 2009, 9:01 PM
Well, if DT decides to move T-Mobile to Sprint's CDMA network, they could sell their GSM network to Vodafone, who then would be able to launch Vodafone USA and then they could sell their stake in VZW back to Verizon so then Verizon would be 100% American.
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WMDuchess

Sep 13, 2009, 9:08 PM
OR

maybe Tmobile can rid their head of silly little fantasies

and sprint will be 100% american it can continue its movement into wimax.

and save everyone else the trouble, pain, grieve, and money.

im just saying.

😁 🤣
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SprintCC

Sep 14, 2009, 9:49 AM
Why would Vodafone sell their stake in the largest carrier to enter a very competitive market as the new kid on the block? They didn't become the company that they are by doing stupid things.
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Azeron

Sep 14, 2009, 9:56 AM
I doubt that Vodaphone would, however they did bid on AT&T Wireless way back when forcing Cingular's then parents to fork out way more cash for ATTWS than they would have. Was Vodaphone serious or were they just making BellSouth and SBC pony up more dollars? Who knows? This is all very interesting.
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