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Re: Possible Sprint Buy-out by Deutsche Telekom

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Originally Posted by weakkneed View Post
Wildthing, if DT is owned by a foreign government, The U.S. government would have grounds to stop the purchase on national security issues. I would not like to see something as important as telecommunications owned and controlled by a foreign entity that might have reason to spy or manipulate( I know, I know, HP and other multinational companies already do this). This has nothing to do with Germany who is a good NATO ally, but with any foreign government
It is not owned per say by the gov't. More like how AT&T was the US monopoly and the gov't was all up in their business before split in 7. They are an isolated company but they have very tight regulatory control. If the US Gov't had an issue they would have blocked the sale of voicestream (i think) to them to make T-Mob.

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Originally Posted by Justin9825 View Post
So this is probably off topic. But I don't wanna make a thread for it. Will the moguls be able to use the Wi-Max? Might be a dumb question. Just wondering?
Yes it off topic, no they cannot.
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