The on-again, off-again buzz about a Sprint merger with T-Mobile is on again, thanks to comments by T-Mobile executives.
Reports from an industry conference in New York center on their comments that link the No. 3 and No. 4 wireless carriers as candidates for combination.
T-Mobile?s chief financial officer, Braxton Carter, told Reuters that a deal with No. 3 Sprint would be ?the logical ultimate combination.? Reuters said Carter declined to say whether the two firms had talked.
Other executives of the upstart No. 4 carrier also raised the idea of building a bigger No. 3 carrier, according to Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche in a note to clients.
Officials with Overland Park-based Sprint declined to comment.
Shares of T-Mobile rose 64 cents, closing at $26.08. Sprint shares sank to $6.04 in the morning but rallied and ended the day at $6.19, unchanged.
Fritzsche wrote that T-Mobile management said ?further (wireless) carrier consolidation is a matter of when, not if? and to not rule out entry of a new player in the industry.
Her note also cited T-Mobile executives as saying that a larger No. 3 carrier could create a more competitive environment than having four carriers. She said they don?t believe Washington is fixed on having four national carriers.
However, regulators derailed AT&T?s $39 billion deal in 2011 to buy T-Mobile. News of their potential merger had come amid heavy rumors that Sprint was about to land a T-Mobile merger.
Instead, Sprint, led by chief executive Dan Hesse, campaigned hard against the AT&T deal, saying it would leave AT&T and Verizon as a ?duopoly? that would essentially control the market.
T-Mobile revives talk about a merger with Sprint - KansasCity.com
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Reports from an industry conference in New York center on their comments that link the No. 3 and No. 4 wireless carriers as candidates for combination.
T-Mobile?s chief financial officer, Braxton Carter, told Reuters that a deal with No. 3 Sprint would be ?the logical ultimate combination.? Reuters said Carter declined to say whether the two firms had talked.
Other executives of the upstart No. 4 carrier also raised the idea of building a bigger No. 3 carrier, according to Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche in a note to clients.
Officials with Overland Park-based Sprint declined to comment.
Shares of T-Mobile rose 64 cents, closing at $26.08. Sprint shares sank to $6.04 in the morning but rallied and ended the day at $6.19, unchanged.
Fritzsche wrote that T-Mobile management said ?further (wireless) carrier consolidation is a matter of when, not if? and to not rule out entry of a new player in the industry.
Her note also cited T-Mobile executives as saying that a larger No. 3 carrier could create a more competitive environment than having four carriers. She said they don?t believe Washington is fixed on having four national carriers.
However, regulators derailed AT&T?s $39 billion deal in 2011 to buy T-Mobile. News of their potential merger had come amid heavy rumors that Sprint was about to land a T-Mobile merger.
Instead, Sprint, led by chief executive Dan Hesse, campaigned hard against the AT&T deal, saying it would leave AT&T and Verizon as a ?duopoly? that would essentially control the market.
T-Mobile revives talk about a merger with Sprint - KansasCity.com
Uhhhh Gsm merging with cdma network anyone care to explain how this is possible? lol
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