Deutsche Telekom is not happy with T-Mobile USA?
Rumors are that parent company of T-Mobile USA (Deutsche Telekom) is not very happy with the financial performance of its american franchise and will be selling it in a couple of years. Any ideas?
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AJ_Nash said:
Rumors are that parent company of T-Mobile USA (Deutsche Telekom) is not very happy with the financial performance of its american franchise and will be selling it in a couple of years. Any ideas?
Total hogwash. With the European cellular market stagnant, Deutsche is relying on Tmobile USA more than ever...and the US branch is responding with continuing success.
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Exactly. Right now, T-Mobile USA is the only profitable division, they would not be smart to sell it off.
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AJ_Nash said:
Rumors are that parent company of T-Mobile USA (Deutsche Telekom) is not very happy with the financial performance of its american franchise and will be selling it in a couple of years. Any ideas?
It's just that an unfounded rumor. T-Mobile USA is performing better than any other division of T-Mobile. Don't you think it would be a little silly to sell the one unit that's performing well?
I wish I knew why people start these rumors.
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My main Question is about T-Mobiles prices? They have to have one of the lowest arpu's in the industry due to their continuing push of teh 39.99 plans and the 49.99 family plan. I do not how how they will remain profitable only promoting the low arpu plans. Also I hear they have a lot of debt and that is why they might get sold. I am not in the know but those are idea's I have heard? What does anyone think of those?
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daddydogg_00 said:
My main Question is about T-Mobiles prices? They have to have one of the lowest arpu's in the industry due to their continuing push of teh 39.99 plans and the 49.99 family plan. I do not how how they will remain profitable only promoting the low arpu plans. Also I hear they have a lot of debt and that is why they might get sold. I am not in the know but those are idea's I have heard? What does anyone think of those?
I love the "I hear" comments. $40 plans are bread and butter to all mobile providers.
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that is goona change soon I think in the future cingular and Verizon's lowest plans will be between 50-60 dollars. They will include both data services and voice service packages.
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simplymarcus said:
that is goona change soon I think in the future cingular and Verizon's lowest plans will be between 50-60 dollars. They will include both data services and voice service packages.
If it does they can count on a whole lot less customers. Believe it or not it's not common for people to spend 50 or 60 dollars a month on cell phone service. People will do without or get prepaid service.
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I don't want to pay any more than I have to. If cingular and verizon are going to bump all plans up to $50-60, I think a lot of people will switch to T-Mobile. Believe it or not, a company could (I don't know what the supply/demand curves are like) make more money selling a plan at $35 rather than $40 because more people will subscribe to the cheaper service.
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Kick in an opinion then I would love to hear it. I doubt these are true but hey it happens with every company. All companies are going to the 49.99 look at verizon, alltel, and cingular they are all making a push to the higher plans becuase that is what Wall street wants.
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daddydogg_00 said:
My main Question is about T-Mobiles prices? They have to have one of the lowest arpu's in the industry due to their continuing push of teh 39.99 plans and the 49.99 family plan. I do not how how they will remain profitable only promoting the low arpu plans. Also I hear they have a lot of debt and that is why they might get sold. I am not in the know but those are idea's I have heard? What does anyone think of those?
Also, look at T-Mo's growth over the past few years. If I were to run a company I think I'd rather be adding more customers at a lower arpu than adding fewer customers with a higher arpu. If you are adding customers and continue to do so well, they spread the word, you add mo...
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Good point. They only argument I will make is all the other major companies are adding people with higher arpus because I think sprint is the only company losing customers and I am not even sure if they are losing subscribers.
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