Don't you think there is a possibility another buyer will be found? The cable companies are trying to get into the mobile data markets. DT has a lot of money invested in T-Mobile USA. DT can't afford to walk away from billions in wireless spectrum licenses, infrastructure and more. Even if DT shut down T-Mobile USA tomorrow, which wouldn't happen, they would still have to pay off or recoup the WCDMA IV licensing, unemployment/severance for thousands of workers, thousands of leases/contracts for tower locations, equipment, telco services, employees, retail locations and much more. Even if T-Mobile were operating at a loss, which it is not, it would have to lose a lot more money to make it worth DT's while to outright close the company. If anything DT would sell the company at a substantial discount, relatively speaking. The hit on an outright loss of T-Mobile USA would tank DT's stock valuation despite their other strong holdings.
For all we know Google might even decide to buy DT out if for nothing else the wireless licenses, especially since they were shut out of the 700Mhz auction. Google bought Motorola to build phones, it seems to me a mobile carrier would complete the package end to end. Matthew J Stevens http://MatthewJStevens.com Mobile: +1.972.200.9040 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ - - T-Mobile-US on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/T-Mobile-US _ _ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
