www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A number of discussions have been held by T-Mobile’s parent, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom with a number of banks about underwriting an IPO for the unit. Partial spinoff of the business which would carve it into a separate entity with its own balance sheet has been considered another option.
Since a past few years, there were continuous rumors regarding Deutsche Telekom’s intention to dispose of its US arm in some form or other. Merger talks with Clearwire and Sprint died off after Clearwire was able to raise the necessary funding for its own network independently.
T-Mobile would be able to raise the funds to boost its network quality, after the floatation of the stock market without Deutsche Telekom ceding management control.