{"id":1004590,"date":"2026-04-25T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004590"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:41:21","slug":"how-deutsche-telekom-and-t-mobile-us-could-pull-off-the-worlds-biggest-ma-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/how-deutsche-telekom-and-t-mobile-us-could-pull-off-the-worlds-biggest-ma-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"How Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US could pull off the world&#8217;s biggest M&amp;A deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/BERLIN: Deutsche Telekom is exploring a possible tie-up with T-Mobile US to create a $300 billion telecoms giant, sources said, in what would overtake Vodafone-Mannesmann&#8217;s $203 billion merger in 1999 to become the biggest M&amp;A deal ever. <\/p>\n<p>The German group already controls 53% of the U.S. unit. But a deal would potentially bring both companies under one entity in a bid to reignite growth in a stagnating telecoms sector, according to a person familiar with the situation and Bloomberg, which was first to report the talks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/BERLIN: Deutsche Telekom is exploring a possible tie-up with T-Mobile US to create a $300 billion telecoms giant, sources said, in what would overtake Vodafone-Mannesmann&#8217;s $203 billion merger in 1999 to become the biggest M&amp;A deal ever. The German group already controls 53% of the U.S. unit. But a deal would potentially bring both companies under one entity in a bid to reignite growth in a stagnating telecoms sector, according to a person familiar with the situation and Bloomberg, which was first to report the talks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004608,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004590\/revisions\/1004608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}