Deutsche Telekom was originally gonna pick up Sprint PCS when they entered the US market in 2000. But they decided buying out Voicestream and Powertel was a better idea, since they were already GSM. Thus T-Mobile USA was born. Sprint wouldn't be a horrible acquisition though... they'd get tons of 2.5Ghz spectrum to deploy LTE or WiMax services, 1900Mhz spectrum that they could pair with the 2100Mhz part of their AWS winnings (with FCC approval of course) to provide Euro-style UMTS for their customers overseas when they come here, and they'd become a Tier 1 internet backbone provider (SprintLink). They'd just have to kill Nextel as quickly as they could. That could drag them down for a while.
“The experience was a quick and painful reminder that no matter how pretty the window dressing is here, HTC has staged its fashion show in a building that should be scheduled for demolition.
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Deutsche Telekom was originally gonna pick up Sprint PCS when they entered the US market in 2000. But they decided buying out Voicestream and Powertel was a better idea, since they were already GSM. Thus T-Mobile USA was born. Sprint wouldn't be a horrible acquisition though... they'd get tons of 2.5Ghz spectrum to deploy LTE or WiMax services, 1900Mhz spectrum that they could pair with the 2100Mhz part of their AWS winnings (with FCC approval of course) to provide Euro-style UMTS for their customers overseas when they come here, and they'd become a Tier 1 internet backbone provider (SprintLink). They'd just have to kill Nextel as quickly as they could. That could drag them down for a while.