http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Deutsche Telekom looking to pick up Sprint? http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/Number 3 spot? If DT's USA mobility unit picks up Sprint, that would catapult them to the number one spot. ]]>May 3rd 2008 12:47PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/
There is, of course, one silver lining in all of this. If it is more than a rumor, never again will we have to put up with a Sprint-lover posting: "When will Sprint get the Blackberry Curve?"]]>May 3rd 2008 1:36PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/
Apparently the only place you get your 'news' from is Engadget, since it's the only site that has reported Tmobile's 3G rollout the way you've so eloquently put it.

Anyway, I don't particularly like the idea of a merger. As someone who has moved from ATT to Sprint to Tmobile I can say I'm as happy a wireless customer as you can have. I'm worried that any kind of merge will take the focus off customer happiness to other things. Give me faster data and I'll be in mobile utopia.]]>May 3rd 2008 3:11PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/that has got to be the dumbest thing i've ever heard.]]>May 3rd 2008 1:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 1:52PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 4:12PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 2:15PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 2:52PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 2:56PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 3:55PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 6:28PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 4:28PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 4:36PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/*
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A Sprint Sidekick....? With Sprint Music/Satellite Radio & T.V and The rest of those services? Maybe make it Touch Screen??

Id never buy another phone.....]]>May 3rd 2008 5:04PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/This is about a good idea as AOL and Time Warner merging. ]]>May 3rd 2008 8:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/
While it would be sad, I would love to see Sprint get some help. I always thought in that Alltel commercial it would be much funnier if Verizon got zapped by the Wizard and then the Sprint guy took them money, because they need it. Anywho, if it helped bring GSM more full circle in the US, I am all for it. Verizon is already going the GSM path with LTE, Sprint is the only one holding out.]]>May 3rd 2008 5:20PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 5:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 5:52PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 7:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 3rd 2008 10:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 4th 2008 2:24AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,545827,00.html

http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/04/14/2008-04-14T080429Z_01_L14519372_RTRIDST_0_DEUTSCHETELEKOM-SHAREHOLDERS.html

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Nothing better then the RED Diamond going to a Nextel Yellow PinDrop (which I thought was the BEST reinvented logo in the history of mobile carriers), and from a Pink *T***MOBILE* to a Pink Pin Drop after the *T***MOBILE '///,]]>Jun 20th 2008 1:17PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/
What could happen is, DT phases out the CDMA base, and transitions everyone over to GSM based handsets, but, they would probably lose a lot of subscribers in the mix. Its more than likely nothing more than hearsay.]]>May 4th 2008 3:08PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 4th 2008 3:06PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 4th 2008 10:24PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 5th 2008 11:35AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/May 6th 2008 1:04AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/
It just doesn't make sense, unless the WiMax network were to be co-developed and maintained with the existing GSM architecture and Sprint phased-out CDMA completely. But then Where does LTE come into play? I don't know. Possibly a dual-technology network where they both compliment each other in places where one technology has been deployed. This would be a good thing for T-Mobile because the WiMax network has been rolled out, it just needs to have the ground infrastructure that supports the mandwidth it demands put into place. Sprint could turn on WiMax today, but there are currently no phones who use it and the bandwidth backing the wireless network would choke. I suspect this is the case with other carriers as well, but they just aren't saying it. Sprint is actually light years ahead of other carriers in terms of a 4G rollout, being that they already have the network in place, but they're just waiting on carriers to roll-out handsets that support it.]]>May 6th 2008 12:53AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/05/03/deutsche-telekom-looking-to-pick-up-sprint/
Anyway, I see T-Mobile using CDMA/GSM as a way to slowly convert from EVDO (which is maxing out currently in evolutionary path) to HSPA/LTE. Maybe keeping EVDO for "HotSpot" service type data cards only.

Its the SPECTRUM T-Mobile wants not the network, the network will be converted piece by piece larger markets first to HSPA/LTE.]]>Jun 20th 2008 1:13PM