Sprint & T-Mobile USA Merger Would Involve Dealing with CDMA, iDEN, GSM, EVDO, WiMAX, UMTS & HSPA+

Sprint, Deutsche Telekom Said to Discuss T-Mobile USA Merger

Sprint apparently has a thing for merging with firms that use uncompatible networks. Remember their purchase of Nextel back in 2005? The two networks are still not merged. If you walk into a Sprint store, the Sprint CDMA phones are on onside of the floor and the Nextel iDEN are on the other. Sprint stock performance has not been stellar since the merger (see the chart to the left).

The article reports that A tie-up would allow Bonn-based Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s largest phone company, to keep a stake in one of its biggest markets while making it easier to finance investments for a faster next-generation network.