Verizon Wireless is the current leader with about 32 percent market share, while AT&T has about 29 percent, according to wireless analyst Chetan Sharma. Sprint Nextel has about 18 percent share, down from about 25 percent a couple of years ago, while T-Mobile USA has about 12 percent share.
A T-Mobile USA merger with Sprint Nextel would create a single company with perhaps 30 percent share, creating a wireless market with three "evenly-matched" contestants. The big difference is that AT&T and Verizon would continue to operate wireline assets, while a new company would operate as a wireless pure play.
So now there are reports that Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA's parent, will launch some sort of effort to merge with Sprint Nextel or otherwise structurally change its market position.
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I'm not sure that the Sprint/DT merger talks are real. I think it's a banker's idea to see what will float. You can merge CDMA with GSM effectively or efficiently. http://tinyurl.com/dtsprint1
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