DT said New York Post got it wrong on potential T-Mobile US merger with Dish Network
On Monday, the New York Post reported the CEO of T-Mobile US parent company Deutsche Telekom said he isn’t interested in a potential merger between the No. 4 U.S. carrier merging with major spectrum asset owner Dish Network.
The Post based its reports on comments attributed to Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus Höttges during an RBC Capital Markets conference in Toronto, Canada.
Instead, the paper reported, Höttges said he’d rather see T-Mobile US merge with its chief competitor Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier.
In the aftermath of that report, Deutsche Telekom reps apparently denied the Post report, although the German-based company didn’t clarify as to what specifically wasn’t correct or how the situation was misreported.
Earlier reports indicated that T-Mobile US was conducting “formative stage” talks with Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network, but it’s clearly nowhere near a done deal.
Dish Network currently has lots of unused spectrum because they have no network, so it seems that the two companies’ assets would nicely complement each other.