Merger

MetroPCS is putting a Friday vote on the proposed merger with T-Mobile USA on hold until April 24th. MetroPCS announced the postponement today, and according to All Things D , the revised terms will reduce MetroPCS’s debt burden in the aftermath — from $15 billion to $11.2 billion. The Wall Street...

It looks like Deutsche Telekom has revised its merger offer for MetroPCS to make it more appealing. There’s only 2 days left before MetroPCS’s shareholders decide whether or not the prepaid wireless carrier will be joining forces with T-Mobile USA . According to The Wall Street Journal , Deutsche...

With the vote by MetroPCS stockholders due in two days, there is a rumor that T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom will raise its bid for the company in order to save the deal from being rejected by MetroPCS shareholders; according to reports in the WSJ, the new terms could be announced by Wednesday...

Deutsche Telekom, speaking to FierceWireless, denies a report that it's considering changing the terms of T-Mobile's proposed merger with MetroPCS. [Read more]

It looks like T-Mobile will be facing an uphill battle come April 12th. On April 12th, the shareholders will be voting on whether or not MetroPCS should form a merger with T-Mobile USA . T-Mobile needs the shareholders to vote for the merger in order to complete the deal. It has already received...

NEWS ANALYSIS: An agreement between U.S. law enforcement and wireless firms to drop Huawei from a list of acceptable telecom vendors may look like paranoia, until you look a little deeper.

Carrier is urging stockholders to vote in favor of the proposed deal with T-Mobile, says Reuters. [Read more]

Dell announced today that it has filed its initial proxy materials with the SEC in connection with a merger agreement between Dell, its Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders would received $13.65 in cash for each share of stock, which...

Sprint Nextel and SoftBank have pledged not to use equipment from Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies after they merge. Congressman Mike Rogers, a Republican state representative from Michigan who leads the House Intelligence Committee, said today that the two companies told him...

In an effort to speed up an already contested $20.1 billion merger , Softbank and Sprint have reportedly agreed not to use Huawei network equipment within the US carrier's existing network. I n fact, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee , Mike Rogers, recently told The New York Times...