said by DMS1 :

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. Vodaphone would only being buying the 60% or so of Verizon Wireless that they don't already own. They wouldn't be buying all of Verizon. Therefore, on the contrary, Verizon would suddenly have loads of cash that it could invest in FiOS.

said by JSRoman :

RTA, The 160 biliion is for all of Verizon.

said by cdru :

This would have absolutely zero impact on FiOS anything. They are different companies under the same Verizon parent corporation umbrella.

said by JSRoman :

Not likely to happen but if it did, it would be good bye future Fios deployments. Vodaphone debt load would be so huge they would have a hard time funding any new Fios deployments.

said by rec9140 :

said by en102 :

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Vodafone is looking for 'Verizon Wireless', not Verizon. Verizon Wireless is owned by Vodafone (45%) and Verizon (55%).

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They are looking to buy 100% of Verizon Communications thus gaining the 55% shares of Verizon Communications in Verizon Wireless.

Sell/spin off the landline side Verizon Communications into a separate company.

This is eat the whole thing to get the part you want and spit out the part you don't want the landline business.

If Vodaphone were to gain control of VZW, I would end my service with them immediately, as they will just fubar things up with their need to have a GSMcrap network in the US.

This deal has lots of little hidden gotchas in it which I really wonder why VZ or Voda even did it at the time. It really gains Voda nothing in the US (the original deal), since VZW is a CDMA and there are exactly 2 handsets that can do both CDMA/GSM in all four bands, one a useless flip and the other a recently intro'd crackberry. The original deal really never made sense and it looks like VZ is going to regret it one way or the other now.

said by rec9140 :


Sprint and nexhell made no sense just as VZW and Voda made no sense. VZW had no plans to convert networks and neither did Voda, so where was the value in this original deal?

said by DaveNJ :

Vodaphone will put CDMA down to rest, and covert to 3G Gsm. They will run both network concurrently. Sprint will again be searching for customers, because yet again. Sprint should have gone gsm, when they bought Nextel.

said by biggbrother :

And this would happen after just spending $160 Billion for company? I don't think so....

Besides, it seems that Verizon and Vodaphone are lobbing nades back and forth here. I think Verizon would bite the bullet and take full control of VZW if it got the chance.

said by rec9140 :

said by DaveNJ :

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Vodaphone will put CDMA down to rest, and covert to 3G Gsm. They will run both network concurrently. Sprint will again be searching for customers, because yet again. Sprint should have gone gsm, when they bought Nextel.

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Which is why this deal made no sense when it started originally.

I want nothing to do with voda and their GSMcrap network.

I will move Alltel in a hearbeat.

This deal nowadays is not likely to happen.

Its pure postering to get VZ to fork out $$$ it doesn't want to spend to pay off and get Voda to go away.

GSM is NOT the be all end all to cell service just because its used more widely. CDMA is not the be all end all to it either and neither is WCDMA or iDEN (dead end).

CDMA has better characteristics and benefits RF wise. Its not really a big deal,as all the GSM carriers will eventually be using a form of CMDA in WCDMA for UMTS any way. So in the end CDMA wins.

Sprint and nexhell made no sense just as VZW and Voda made no sense. VZW had no plans to convert networks and neither did Voda, so where was the value in this original deal?