Possible Sprint Buy-out by Deutsche Telekom - Page 2

blue4shizzle · #1 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 02:44 AM

i doubt sprint will get bought out now.. i mean they are having rough times.. but jeez it aint THAT bad.. it'll pick up

blue4shizzle · #2 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 02:50 AM

oh trust, i seriously doubt sprint is going out like that.. whats going on is sprint is working on bigger and better things.. once everything comes together, people will flock in like sardines.. not to mention how the fastest mobile broadband network will be that much faster...

johnny hotsauce · #3 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 03:15 AM

The market analysts have too much time on their hands IMO. DT aquiring Sprint may look good on paper at first considering the value of the Euro is much stonger than the American Dollar and DT would be getting one heck of a good deal with Sprint but then you have to look at the long term ramifacations and cost impact of such an aquisition.

Sprint had enough of a problem engulfing Nextel and those problems are still here and won't go away over night but it looks like Hesse has things starting to head in the right direction. But at that time Sprint Nextel had to deal with 2 companies, 2 different network technologies, 2 billing platforms, 2 cultures and 2 completely different subscriber bases and they're still working through those issues. Now Imagine if DT comes in; instead of 2 of everything it'll now be 2 1/2 companies, 3 network technologies, 3 billing platforms (soon to be 2 as when P2K to Ensemble migrations are complete), 3 cultures, 3 completely different subscriber bases and a partridge in a pear tree.

The long term effects of such an aquisition would be incredibly challenging and very expensive to DT. I personally don't see this happening and don't want this to happen but then again everyone said the same thing about Sprint and Nextel "merging" so I guess we can never say never...

psycom · #4 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 03:18 AM

I just went back to Sprint Friday and LOVE my new Mogul. I was with them in 2000 and service sucked... signals that is. They fixed that. And now with the 100 buck program for everything unlimited including broadband how could I go wrong? Hell, with discounts and a rebate I got the Mogul 6800 for 200 bucks. Can you beat that deal?

drthomasho · #5 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by psycom

I just went back to Sprint Friday and LOVE my new Mogul. I was with them in 2000 and service sucked... signals that is. They fixed that. And now with the 100 buck program for everything unlimited including broadband how could I go wrong? Hell, with discounts and a rebate I got the Mogul 6800 for 200 bucks. Can you beat that deal?

And now you can also have EVDO, Rev. A !

orochimaru · #6 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 03:21 AM

sprint is the only company the the national promoter score is a negitive 2 that right -2 that why they are not going to sell anyone one who would by them would have to do a lot of work but hey. anything is possible

Slwitek · #7 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 09:36 AM

Does T-Mobile have "real" picmail? Cant get Sprint's snafoo out of my head!

bushd · #8 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 03:38 AM

Actually in regards to the hiring and not selling comment that is exactly what happens. It is happening with Toys R Us. We were publically traded and got bought out because we were an in the red company. After restructuring we're now making a good profit and in the process of setup for sell off.

tech · #9 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 09:44 AM

sprint will never agree to a buy out!!!

bushd · #10 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 10:04 AM

They don't have to agree to a buy out. There is take-overs and this happens all the time. If you have enough cash you buy enough stock and control 50.01% of the company then you effectively own it since your vote automatically wins.