| vz I don't know why vodafone would want a wireless company that uses a different technology they're using. yes, the most likely thing would be for vodafone to buy t-mobile, or sell the stake in vzw and leave it at that.
If they sell off their wireline, that includes verizon business/mci. Who knows, if this buyout is allowed, then at&t may be allowed to buy verizon. Can you imagine that? The article mentions private equity (PE) would get Verizon, but I don't see PE paying $90 billion or so for their wireline, unless a couple PEs team up.
Who knows... maybe Qwest could buy part of Verizon. Qwest was already making an offer for MCI that was almost double the size of the company, so would they do so again? (buy almost half of VZ).
I made a comment a while back in a VZ story that some investors fear that Verizon might spin off their wireline. PE owning them would probably result in the end of fios. AT&T owning them might result in something else. I'd say that there's a better chance that AT&T would keep FTTH over PE keeping it. AT&T can't quit FTTH/FTTN, because of the threat of cable companies. This was always something that investors feared, Verizon getting bought. |
