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T-Mobile's Legere: Dish team-up 'makes some sense'
Feb 27 2015, 09:19 ET | By: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor

Speaking at Deutsche Telekom's (OTCQX:DTEGY) capital markets day, T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS) chief John Legere reiterated comments he made last week about the prospects of a wireless partnership with satellite company Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH): "Dish and we, that makes some sense."
"It makes sense from the standpoint of integrating that spectrum and capability and deploying it at our network," Legere says of Dish's spectrum hoard. (Of course, he's been critical of Dish's auction bidding when it suited him.)
Legere also says that facing rapid customer growth, T-Mobile has cut its margin target -- seeing margin on EBITDA of 32-34% in 2017, vs. its previous target of 34-36%.
For his part, Dish's Charlie Ergen has had sweet talk for T-Mobile as well.
Previously: T-Mobile's knockout Q4: Turning the profit corner; are they No. 3? (Feb. 19 2015)
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T-Mobile keeps fanning Dish partnership flames
Mar 6 2015, 20:07 ET | About: T-Mobile US, Inc. (TMUS) | By: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor

More merger hints -- or maybe more than just hints, as T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS) CFO Braxton Carter essentially nominates his firm as Dish Network's (NASDAQ:DISH) wireless partner, among some very kind words for Dish CEO Charlie Ergen.
Ergen has done a "masterful job of creating a very differentiated mid-band spectrum position,” Carter said.
“He’s not interested in building his own network and we would be a very good partner for deploying his spectrum."
Ergen's had similar kind words for T-Mobile before -- in a summer 2013 earnings call, he said: "Certainly, T-Mobile ... you could put that together with Dish in a number of ways, including acquisition and merger, and that's probably not possible with the other wireless providers."
He added then that he didn't think their options had changed "unless you just look at a full-blown acquisition or a merger and really, that's probably only T-Mobile at this point in time."
Ergen's been more circumspect lately, but says video service will be "core" to any tie-up they engage in.
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