{"id":278204,"date":"2010-02-04T18:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5464562"},"modified":"2010-02-04T18:19:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T23:19:25","slug":"t-mobile-finally-moving-out-of-deutsche-telekoms-basement-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/278204","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Finally Moving Out of Deutsche Telekom’s Basement [Rumor]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, T-Mobile customer, do you have any idea that your wireless carrier is actually owned and operated by German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom<\/a>? No? Well, ignore everything I just said, because it probably won’t be true soon.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in why DT would spin off their entire US arm, it’s just a matter of numbers: <\/p>\n

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T-Mobile USA<\/a> has languished under perceptions that its wireless network is inferior and lacks reach, a major shortcoming as customers turn to their cell phones to surf the Internet and stream video. In the third quarter, 77,000 users walked away from T-Mobile USA, while AT&T and Verizon Wireless added millions of customers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

DT is a conservative company, T-Mobile USA, while massive, represents a fraction of their business, or a medium-sized liability, depending on how you look at it. <\/p>\n

The excision could come as either a partial spinoff, a merger with another American carrier (and not an AT&T or a Verizon—we’re talking the likes of MetroPCS), or an IPO. Whatever happens, we’ll probably hear about it within “the next two months.” [WSJ<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Hey, T-Mobile customer, do you have any idea that your wireless carrier is actually owned and operated by German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom? No? Well, ignore everything I just said, because it probably won’t be true soon. If you’re interested in why DT would spin off their entire US arm, it’s just a matter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}