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T-Mobile U.S. Explores Takeover Of Sprint: Source
Topic Started: Sep 20 2017, 09:50 AM (162 Views)
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http://www.oann.com/t-mobile-sprint-in-merger-talks-cnbc/

September 20, 2017

By Liana B. Baker

(Reuters) – U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc is exploring taking over rival Sprint Corp in an all-stock deal, after SoftBank Group Corp offered to give up its majority ownership of Sprint, a person familiar with the matter said.

The latest negotiations come after Reuters reported earlier this year that Japan’s SoftBank was prepared to give up control of Sprint to clinch a merger with T-Mobile, and only retain a minority stake in the combined company.

Sprint and T-Mobile, which is controlled by Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG, are still weeks away from an agreement, and have not settled on a share exchange ratio or even started performing due diligence on each other, the source added.

The companies have agreed, however, that John Legere, T-Mobile’s outspoken chief executive, would run the combined company should there be a deal, according to the source, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential negotiations.
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This has been rumored to be coming for the entire year. Everything I had read earlier signaled that it was going to happen but it had to wait until after the last round of bandwidth auctions that ended in late April.

These two companies use very different technologies so one of them would have to switch. Since T-Mobile's GSM is more globally accepted I would think that Sprint would be the company that made the switch and then essentially they would just retool their towers over the course of a couple years to run GSM instead of CDMA.

Sprint owns a ton of bandwidth in the higher frequencies and they have already demonstrated near gigabit speeds over that bandwidth in certain markets. T-Mobile will need more bandwidth to keep growing in the USA so the deal makes sense.
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