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One of these days it’s plausible to believe that the ailing wireless giant Sprint [S
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But don’t count on that being anytime soon.
Despite reports from the U.K.’s Telegraph that Deutsche Telecom [DT
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That doesn’t make the Telegraph story untrue, but were any deal in the offing, chances are Sprint and its hired hands would know about it.
What I hear from Sprint’s advisors is that anti-trust concerns might make any T-Mobile [DT
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While AT&T [T
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] dominate the U.S. wireless arena, a merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, the number three and four players could be a tough one to get past the Obama administration’s anti-trust enforcers.
One scenario involving Sprint and Deutsche Telecom that does make sense involves Clearwire- the Wimax company 51% owned by Sprint that still needs billions of dollars to complete its build out. T-Mobile needs spectrum to start offering a 4-G wireless service and Clearwire [CLWR
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Stay tuned.
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