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Deutsche Telekom Likely Wants Sprint's Wireline Business, Not the Whole Company

Any guess on how much Sprint would ask for its wireline? Q was asking for several billion for its wireline.

However, you may forget XO has a lot of bandwidth and it owns THE nation’s largest LMDS spectrum portfolio with best use for backhaul. More obviously, the Deutsche Bank is a 3.64% XOHO shareholder, and T-System has been a partner of XOHO (T-Systems Selects XO To Expand U.S. Presence: www.xchangemag.com/hot... )

The entire XO is currently worth only $800 million and Carl Icahn has been struggling with the endless legal war with R2 and all the minority shareholders.

Should we feel surprised if a deal strikes?

Clearwire’s WiMAX Tests: Acquisition of IDT’s Spectrum

The 39 GHz and LMDS are for backhaul, which is the current bottleneck for all mobile broadband communications.