Thursday, January 20, 2011

T-Mobile Rules Out LTE Launch - Looking for Radio Spectrum Partners

T-Mobile USA has outlined plans to catch up with its larger rivals and is targeting revenue increase of US$3 billion by 2014 and cost savings of a further US$1 billion by 2013. CEO Philipp Humm's management team at T-Mobile USA intends to bring about a decisive improvement in the company's operations and gain market share with its challenger strategy presented in New York today. Already this year revenues are expected to grow maintaining a stable EBITDA-margin.


The company has however ruled out deploying an LTE network for several years, "once devices are readily available and once device quality is on par with the HSPA+ network". In the meantime a key area the firm has identified is improving T-Mobile USA's spectrum position. T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom is exploring various options to acquire additional spectrum and reduce the gap regarding economies of scale compared with its larger competitors, including partnering with other companies - which is bound to restart speculation about a deal with WiMAX network, Clearwire.

The company is also looking at MVNO and co-branding opportunities, which could include the above speculated deal with Clearwire.

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