Deutsche Telekom, the large German-based carrie with its T-Mobile subsidiary that constitutes to 33 million subscriber, is mulling a bid on Sprint. It means that T-Mobile has only 12% of the American market which makes keeping up with the competition in terms of the size of its network and marketing costs extremely difficult.
“Sources said Deutsche Telekom could submit a bid for Sprint,†the report says, adding that the deal could happen within the next few weeks. This sounds pretty speculative — companies talk all the time about doing deals together. Still, a merger of the two companies would appear to make sense.
The United States has four large carriers. Sprint and T-Mobile are the third and fourth, respectively — trailing leaders Verizon and AT&T
