Comments on: A Cross Border Telecom M&A Boom? http://gigaom.com/2007/07/17/a-cross-border-telecom-ma-boom/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2007/07/17/a-cross-border-telecom-ma-boom/#comment-175218 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:50:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/17/a-cross-border-telecom-ma-boom/#comment-175218 What seems strange is why is no one raising the very logical move of Vodaphone buying Sprint. At that point they could do a couple of interesting things (not necessarily mutually exclusive).

1) Sell Verizon Wireless stake back to Verizon

2) Leverage Verizon Wireless stake to allow pain-free conversion of Sprint network to GSM — legacy customers just use the Verizon Network until everyone has a GSM handset and can use the new Sprint network

3) Sell the Verizon Wireless stake and legacy Sprint/Nextel networks (maybe all to Verizon, maybe piecemeal — I bet the guys who bought Alltel would want some of it) and use the money to build a really kickass WiMAX network and just be all IP in the US

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/07/17/a-cross-border-telecom-ma-boom/#comment-175217 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:41:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/17/a-cross-border-telecom-ma-boom/#comment-175217 No no no…. staying away from that stuff. ;-)

]]> By: PhoneBoy http://gigaom.com/2007/07/17/a-cross-border-telecom-ma-boom/#comment-175216 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:16:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/07/17/a-cross-border-telecom-ma-boom/#comment-175216 Now where was that Cask-Strength Macallan… talk about strong stuff. ;)

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