TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Tag: Mergers and Acquisitions
Softbank’s fight with Dish for Sprint runs far afield from the enterprise
May 3, 2013
So it turns out that Sprint has at least two suitors. Softbank and Dish Network are now competing to take over majority to full control of Sprint. The Dish bid of about $25 billion outdoes Softbank’s bid of about $20 … Continue reading
Nextel subscriber run-off hits hard as Sprint struggles to remake itself
February 8, 2013
Every idea you’ve heard that preserves Sprint’s long-term relevance in the U.S. telecom marketplace has an asterisk so big that it might as well be flashing yellow even in boring, black-and-white newspaper copy. All of this was demonstrated in Sprint’s fourth-quarter … Continue reading
Top SBC vendor Acme Packet snapped up by … Oracle
February 6, 2013
Who knew? Your new critical network infrastructure vendor may be not Cisco, not Juniper, not Avaya, but Oracle. Okay, it may take some steps to get there. At the start of this week, Oracle announced it was buying Acme Packet, … Continue reading
SoftBank shells out $20 billion for Sprint
October 15, 2012
So Sprint is going under Japanese ownership, for real. SoftBank announced this morning that it is paying $20.1 billion for majority control – 70% – of the No. 3 U.S. telecommunications carrier. Invariably referred to in the media as the No. 3 “cellphone” … Continue reading
Are you in the room in the Sprint sale negotiations?
October 12, 2012
In a word, no. I’m not sure I’ve seen a developing story about a major telecom merger that seems to be less about customers than this one. Oh sure, there are Sprint “customers” – 56 million of them, totaling up … Continue reading
The beginning of the end of the independent Sprint
October 11, 2012
Sprint this morning has confirmed that it’s considering a sale of the company. That may not be quite the way it put it. Sprint says that Japanese giant SoftBank – a major mobile provider among many other businesses – is … Continue reading
T-Mobile swims in the other direction, gobbles up consumer wireless player
October 3, 2012
That thud you hear is the enterprise impact of today’s announced merger between T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS, which is very little. MetroPCS is largely a provider of calling plans to consumers of very modest means attracted to the no-subscription or … Continue reading
Second-tier carrier facilities are coming together, one way or another
October 1, 2012
There’s kind of a specialized trade press that covers mergers and acquisitions across all major industries. Over the weekend it was buzzing with reports that CenturyLink is in the market to buy TW Telecom. Or that TW Telecom has put itself … Continue reading
- Apparently feeling left out, Verizon adds an Administrative Expense Fee
- Data pooling plans gain momentum as data usage accelerates
- Softbank’s fight with Dish for Sprint runs far afield from the enterprise
- Getting a grasp on your telecom inventory – is it possible?
- Declining account support and the rise of the vendor “Program Management Office”
- Machine-to-machine: A whole new wireless pricing ballgame
- Transformation projects require their own timeline and approach
- CenturyLink cuts shareholder dividend as necessary transition accelerates
- Data sharing plans already add usage … and devices
- Nextel subscriber run-off hits hard as Sprint struggles to remake itself