Not a week goes by that we don't
hear of investor pressure on Deutsche Telekom to strengthen its financials and
offload underperforming units -- T-Mobile USA included -- and the American outpost is back in the spotlight this evening coming off a report out of
The Wall Street Journal that a spinoff might indeed be in the works. According to our favorite "people familiar with the matter," DT has reached out to a few banks with the goal of raising enough capital for T-Mobile through an IPO that it'd be able to continue to fund its network build-out, something that's going to become increasingly critical as it fends off 7.2Mbps HSPA and 4G competition from all of its national competitors. There are a few scenarios allegedly being discussed, ranging from a full-on excision of T-Mobile from its corporate parent to a merger with another US wireless firm -- but the plan gaining most traction internally is said to involve selling around 20 percent of the carrier to investors while hanging onto the rest, a situation that would get the underperforming unit's financials off DT's books. Ultimately, whatever comes of this probably won't happen for a few months while the options get mulled, but considering what
went down in the UK, this certainly seems plausible.
posted February 4th 2010 8:54PM
Bet this is just a ploy to get more people on T-mo and then do nothing :)
Not a chance in hell I'd stay with Tmobile if apple bought them, and I love having Tmobile. Can't stand the whole apple/appstore closed ecosystem bs.
How about merging with Cricket or a prepaid company Tracfone comes to mind as there are a customer of all the major networks in purchasing bulk minutes and run off all 4 networks; it would probably be cheaper for them to just buy Tmobile with some help from America Movil/Claro/Telcel/Porta than to continue what they currently do.
I hope that if they do get spun off, they improve their phone roster...
Seeing how I have been with T mobile for five years, I would hate to see another carrier buy them and disolve them like Verizon did with Alltel. So I'm hoping that Deusche Telekom can work something out & keep them.
I too have been a T-Mo customer for five years and would hate to see them be dissolved by a larger company. I love my service and where I live I have 3g coverage where my friends with at&t just gets EDGE!
With the telco's link to standards (Sprint/WiMax, AT&T/LTE/Apple, VZW/LTE)....
It would be cool if VZW snapped up Tmo for 3.5G and help in their LTE transition. And offer some GSM 3G service to put AT&T in their place. Also:
VZW + Tmo == Milestone (droid) == Win.
The again, Tmo, HTC, and of course Google together, all focused on one mission would be a force to reckon with.
T-Mobile has the best rates and I use their service so this is not a good news.
this is like the fourth time I heard this in the last six months but I hope they go independent or they come to an agreement with a carieer facing similer strugle like sprint. Leap or even metro... Nt with the devil like companies of verizon n at&t. Man those guys are crazy! Can anyone here tell my why they have verizon or at&t besides of the subsides phnes? Man look at there plans n compare them to the smaller companies such as t-mobile and sprint... I'm a sprint costumer n long time fan. Man there kick ass! N in a way I wld wish t-mobile wld merge with sprint so they cld have the costumer base n financial status to directly compete with the big 2... I mean have you guys seen verizon's budget for advertisement??? There outrages (ha awsome I just miss spelled advertisement n my palm pre corrected me ) well if only all the phones wld be equaly availabe on every career then we wld really hoose a cellphone company nt because of the phone there subsidising for us but for the quality of service n signal strength there offering. That wld be awsome.
p.s. T-mobile does nt have the best rates! SPRINT DOES! Check it out see for ur selfs
@saddam3 But T-Mobil has lower rates for people who buy their phones outright and they don't make you sign a contract.
It only seems right.