Forbes Magazine and Bloomberg report that Deutsche Telekom AG has no intention of selling T-Mobile USA.
The reports were ‘purely fictitious’ and were invented by financial investors in the US, the sources told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Deutsche Telekom’s supervisory board did not recently discuss the sale of the US unit, the sources added.
The Wall Street Journal Europe reported earlier, citing unnamed sources, that the telecoms giant’s management board has been discussing the divestment of T-Mobile USA and that a sale could value the mobile phone business at an estimated $25-30 billion.
“…T-Mobile’s dilemma is that the European version of CDMA (WCDMA, also called UMTS) requires 10 MHz (2 x 5 MHz) for the initial RF carrier,” Nordgaard noted. “In order to deploy this, T-Mobile will either have to carve this spectrum out of its existing holdings, which are already taxed, or purchase additional spectrum at auction.”
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