Comments on: Analysts Play Guessing Game; Deutsche Telekom to Acquire Sprint?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:22:28 +0000

This would be good for T-Mobile but I see a problem with this. They would have to spend money changing the CDMA services to GPRS. This could cost a lot and take a long time to transfer all this. Other than this it would be something great.

By: johnny

johnny — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:34:32 +0000

hmm, makes me wonder what they would do with that CDMA network
especially since it has more customers than it’s own.
would it just ditch that highspeed EV-DO?
I agree with Ken, just as much sense as the sprint/nextel merger
lol

By: JerryA

JerryA — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:20:06 +0000

So the major US provider with the fastest and cheapest unlimited data in my area and still no ties to treasonsous illegal wiretapping might get bought out? Damn.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:50:58 +0000

DT doesn’t have to combine “brands” (TMO and Sprint). They can simply purchase Sprint, Re-brand them, and then use the spectrum Sprint owns to build out both networks. They would have to do this without merging the company with TMO as I think the rest of the industry has learned from Sprint’s merger with Nextel that merging with diff technologies is not always the greatest idea. Let alone combining 3. iDen, GSM, CDMA.

By: mg713

mg713 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:58:49 +0000

i think t-mo is the best company to buy sprint because they would bring great service to the sprint costumers who are suffering with sprint. i have been with att and my sis in law has sprint. and we all agree that t-mo has better quality, better prices, better service, and all around very good. i think sprint costumers would love to get all that instead of what they are getting now.

By: mg713

mg713 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:55:31 +0000

i think t-mobile is the best to ac

By: John J

John J — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:34:18 +0000

A lot of great views brought up here. T-Mobile would be good for Sprint but Sprint would also be bad for T-Mobile. While Sprint has fast data their support is not reported to be very good or friendly, while T-Mobile had decent data speeds and very good and friendly support. Could be a big boost to market share for T-Mobile but has a lot of downsides. I hope it does not happen.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:25:15 +0000

Well voadaphone based in germany OWNS over 45 percent of verizion wirless.
So voadaphon could use euros agaoisnt dollers an buy sprint. This would also upt tha amount of ownership vodaphone has vs. Verizon comunications.

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:55:22 +0000

Wow I’m so mixed after many of you brought up so many good points. I really love T-Mo since I switched from Sprint in September. Twice Sprint screwed by bill so bad I yelled and screamed and all they did was send the collection agencies on me rather than just admit their mistake and keep me as a loyal customer. I was with them for almost 6 years too. I like T-Mo so much they likely shouldn’t buy it, like when Diamlyer bought Chrysler. I’d rather watch Sprint implode. Hey Sprint Reps, I want my money back!

By: Jibi

Jibi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:48:18 +0000

@msatlas, I agree in principle. CDMA/iDEN vs GSM would be the actual comparison, though. However, purely from a frequency spectrum and customer base point of view, it may be easier for T-Mobile to buy the fledgling company and slowly phase out the Sprint network. Of course, this is purely wireless…

With that said, it makes more sense for Verizon to take over Sprint. They’d get their global network backbone, in addition to their wireless business on like networks. Maybe then we can safely say ‘To Hell’ with WiMax.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:43:25 +0000

To me this dosn’t make sense. I can see voadaphone doing this more than DT

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:01:49 +0000

Yikes! I hope if DT does this they would keep it seperate from T mo! What if they had three diff networks!

By: Bigsmooth66

Bigsmooth66 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:36:30 +0000

You guys assume that DT would combine Sprint and T-Mobile. Remember, DT owns several carriers under the T-Mobile brand, but none of them are connected to each other. Now if they were to take Sprint and somehow offered to convert it to T-Mobile Business and then offered to move residential customers to T-Mobile USA with no penalties it could be a win all around.

By: msatlas

msatlas — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:30:05 +0000

Not going to happen for one very major reason that has nothing to do with CDMA vs. GSM. T-Mobile USA is by far the most profitable Deutsche Telecom subsidiary. It’s highly profitable because they keep costs of running and expanding their network as low as possible, while at the same time spending slightly higher than the US industry standard on customer service. T-Mobile scores well in customer surveys even though they’re just as cheap as Sprint on the network side. Deutsche Telecom then uses the high profit to balance out its T-Mobile subsidiaries in other countries which with the exception of T-Mobile UK that turns a slight profit, all lose loads of money on a regular basis. I highly doubt Deutsche Telecom would want to saddle their only cash cow in T-Mobile USA with the boat anchor that is Sprint.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:36:52 +0000

http://www.cellformer.com/stories/2008/Mar/06/T-Mobile-to-acquire-Sprint-Probably-not-37.html

there is a good analysis of this here

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:30:28 +0000

It would be an interesting idea, but I really hope there is no truth behind this. Sprint’s name is not good anymore and carries too much baggage with it. What would DT do with it but transfer the existing customers to T-Mobile and then shut down Sprint? Don’t forget that T-Mobile and Sprint use opposing technologies, and that would make any type of purchase all that more complicated. DT would spend money trying to maintain the Sprint/Nextel network, money that would be otherwise intended for expanding T-Mobile’s network and services (like 3G). “Hey, I’m sorry that we can’t deploy {insert new feature here} but we had to spend money to fix part of the Sprint network.” Doubtful. With the condition of Sprint after the Nextel merger, Sprint’s downward spiral is going to continue. Any competition that can arise from Sprint will be short-lived unless Sprint can make a miracle comeback in a short time.

By: thefencechild

thefencechild — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:13:10 +0000

I think this would be a great move on t-mobiles part. maybe it would give them the necessary means to give a rats ass about business users for once. get some more powerful phones or something, but we shall see

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:31:38 +0000

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=S:US&sid=aVbcSPCPOti4

By: EndHaiku

EndHaiku — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:20:47 +0000

Who’s shorting Qualcomm shares today? There will be a firesale on CDMA equipment if this goes through.

By: win_mo

win_mo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:19:06 +0000

Does this mean we will (hopefully) get customer reps who actually help you?

By: Witty #9050

Witty #9050 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:05:52 +0000

Hopefully Verizon does acquire Sprint… and then they can BOTH burst into flames.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:59:28 +0000

I think this makes as much sense as the Sprint/Nextel merger.

Verizon is a much better candidate…