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Sprint Nextel: A Short on Today's Gap-Up

The German government has a large stake in Deutsch Telecom. That ownership fact might be a bigger block to a DT buyout of Sprint than overcoming the technology challenges of managing 3 legacy networks - and Qchat and Wimax. [Sprint has the experience from the merger to anticipate and manage multiple network problems and those challenges have been met. That makes Sprint a good candidate to manage the next multiple network challenge. And, the next telecom M&A will bring that feature with it.]

If the rumors about Morgan O'Brien buying Nextel back are true, perhaps he could buy all of the government and national security sensitive parts of the business and clear the way for DT to buy the consumer wireless business??? And, probably let the corporate customers choose between the two? [Just a thought - not sure how doable this arrangement would be]