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Re: Sounds like DT looking to dump T-Mobile I read somewhere that T-Mobile USA has something like 30 million customers. While that's behind AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, that's still a lot of customers that DT would leave behind. I'm unsure how many they have in Germany, but I don't think it can be more than that, and if so, not by much.
I don't think DT is about to just walk away from such a huge base of customers. Losing money or not losing money, all those customers would be a base for any future services they may offer. Would they really want to just dump it all? I don't think so. They're better off trying to do an IPO, getting some cash flow, then using that to beef up their US network. |
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| said by burgerwars:I don't think DT is about to just walk away from such a huge base of customers. Losing money or not losing money, all those customers would be a base for any future services they may offer. Walk away sounds like they would lose a lot of money. But spinning them off as an IPO or selling them to someone else brings a ton of cash to DT. I think this is more about DT not wanting to continue doing business in the US and using the sale proceeds to invest in the EU markets. |
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 GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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Yes, in this country, there are 34 million subscribers.
Across DT's global network, there are 150.90 million subscribers.
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 en102Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA | Yup - its all relative.
This is not much different than Nextel/Sprint (iDEN/CDMA) or even larger 500 million CDMA customers globally to 4.2 billion GSM/UMTS based.
Business decisions some times require selling off one asset to support the core business. |
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