Analyst Believes T-Mo to be Broken Up & Sold Off

If this means changing to CDMA I for one will not be interested.

 

Well if that happened I guess all the people that fear the AT&T deal because of the fact that it would leave only one national GSM carrier will be none too pleased.


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I don't care who ends up buying T-Mobile (or any piece of T-Mobile) as long as it's not AT&T or Verizon.

 

If MetroPCS ends up buying a piece of T-mobile I doubt they will convert it to CDMA. That would be like a step backwards when they have LTE already.

 

I'm only concerned because I have known such a thing to happen.

 

This is what I pictured when the deal was first announced. The only way AT&T would have agreed to such a high payout for the merger going through was if they knew no matter what, they'd be eliminating a major competitor. That's why they were so quick to announce their bandwidth intentions to say that UMTS on 1700 AWS was basically going away--I'm sure that hurt T-Mobile's ability to get phones in the long-term.

 

I know this would've been something to consider back 5 years ago. But today things have changed quite a bit. We are seeing the end of the road for CDMA already, and for someone to convert a GSM/WCDMA network to CDMA, by the time they're done with that it would be time to retire CDMA in favor of LTE. It would be double the work and double the money. Might as well keep it the way it is, convert GSM customers to LTE or CDMA on their existing CDMA network, and upgrate the WCDMA/GSM networks to LTE.

But I think that AT&T rather have a major breakup of T-mobile in the way of divestitures, rather than cancelling their deal with DT and end up paying billions and spectrum to T-Mobile. Even with lots of divestitures, AT&T would gain some spectrum, hardware, and customers. However, if the deal falls through, AT&T would just lose money and spectrum, and T-Mobile would be sold to someone else anyway either entirely or in pieces. It's best for AT&T to bend over to DOJ demands, grab whatever they can from T-Mobile and sell parts as divestitures to recoup some of the $39 billion.