Sprint in talks to acquire T-Mobile USA, report claims

By on Mar 8, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Rumor March 8, 2011

Rumors of a possible T-Mobile takeover were reignited on Tuesday as Bloomberg reports Sprint and Deutsche Telekom are holding meetings to discuss a possible acquisition. Citing multiple anonymous sources, Bloomberg claims discussions between the two companies have been taking place on and off for some time, and one of the major areas of dispute is T-Mobile USA’s valuation. Should Sprint and Deutsche Telekom eventually come to terms, the deal would reportedly give Deutsche Telekom a sizable stake in Sprint Nextel Corp. following the merger — up to 50%. Sprint declined to comment on the report, while a Deutsche Telekom spokesperson said only that the company “could sell all or part of the U.S. business, and all options are open.”

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  • Gem52664

    As long as Sprint does not add the $10.00 additional just cause they said so Fee.It’s ok by me.

  • Marty

    WOW…..that gives them a fighting chance….still #3, but it gets them in the game…there is still room in the arena and sometimes the underdog does come out ahead. Good Luck Sprint!

  • Anonymous

    Ugh, Jesus no.

    I’m on T-Mo right now, it’s great for the price. Quite happy with it, especially after how bad AT&T was. I can’t see any way Sprint eating T-Mo could turn out well for current T-Mo customers. Which would leave me… Verizon? Hooray for less competition.

  • http://twitter.com/skreekia david

    DT selling Tmobile to Sprint now is a bad idea, in the future if both companies have committed to LTE then yes good idea. BUT DT asking for 50% stake in the joined company is nuts, why would i buy a company from you and you still have almost a 50% stake in it still, no way doesnt make sense… Sprint is not hurting that bad to make a move like that, there sitting on almost 6 billion in cash reserves the copmany is starting to turn around, they have more Spectum than any other carrier, and they are building out a nationwide 4G network with the possibility of switching to LTE and we know this already. Still i feel at the present day a Sprint t mobile combined company is a bad idea.

  • Moorex

    What makes you think Sprint is buying T-mobile? Could just as well be the other way around, especially if DT is looking to invest 50% or more. It would be silly to keep the Sprint name in a merger, T-mobile has a more positive perception from a consumer standpoint

    • Chut Pata

      Agreed. Sprint had the crappiest customer service that I remember, whereas there is nothing good about T-Mo except customer service. We all know what happened when AT&T (service crappier than Sprint) took over Cingular (excellent service better than T-Mo).

  • Anonymous

    Sprint corporate egos would ruin T-Mobile.

    • Supercop

      T-mo phone selection ruined T-mo.

  • lostGuy

    Everything Sprint buys turns to shit (Anyone remember Nextel?)

  • Chut Pata

    Let us hope 0.25 + 0.50 turns out to be 0.75 (cause it can never be 1.00).

  • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

    Not this shit again! Didn’t Sprint learn their lesson about running two incompatible networks when they bought Nextel?? $33 Billion completely written off, and Nextel about to be shut down. CDMA and GSM shouldn’t be mixed.

  • Anonymous

    Sweet, a 3rd kind of network.

  • http://twitter.com/BeanTNT Bean

    didn’t sprint almost die like 5 times? lol

    • Sean

      It can’t. It’s a zombie.

  • Your mama

    Its a bullshit topic that keeps people talking thats all

  • http://twitter.com/fyrfyter33 fyrfyter33

    Apparently, Sprint didn’t learn anything last time around. CDMA with iDEN worked out great! so go ahead, and add GSM into the mix. That won’t make things anymore confusing, or anymore useless!

  • Slotlover

    Thats just great news! the #last phone company in customer support and overall gives less than a crap for their paying customers….Sprint, wants to buy the #1 phone company in customer support T-Mobile… so the bastard child of this marriage made in hell will be a company that could care less and screws you while cashing your check!

    good job!

  • http://twitter.com/TQEvents TQ Events

    Mann Spint Nooooo!

  • Anonymous

    Tell me that aint the coolest thing you heard all day!

    http://www.privacy-tools.cz.tc

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1422127795 Joe Cox

    My T-Mobile Friends!

  • Private101

    The day Sprint buys T-mobile I will be moving to a different provider

  • Munjal

    no way! I just signed a 2 year contract with Tmobile to get my Nexus :(

  • http://twitter.com/qriusme qriusme

    I’m surprised. Does Sprint have the money? Or is this more of an equal merger?

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