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• Merger Gets Final Green Light.(Company Business and Marketing)

  - 2001-05-07

  WASHINGTON--German wireless behemoth Deutsche Telekom got the final OK from U.S. officials last week to buy out VoiceStream Wireless and Powertel Inc., even as a powerful lawmaker vowed to try to scale back the deal. The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, which...

  Tags: Deutsche Telekom AG, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, marketing, merger, U.S., U.S. Senate, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• No More Merger Angst for Deutsche Telekom

  - 2001-04-26

  By Malcolm Spicer, mspicer@pbimedia.com The FCC's approval yesterday of Deutsche Telekom's [DT] takeover of VoiceStream Wireless [VSTR] not only signals the commission's willingness to allow foreign ownership of a U.S. telco, but also its preference for letting the market and not regulations determine what telecom services will be...

  Tags: commission, Deutsche Telekom AG, FCC, Government, merger, NETWORKING, SALES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, U.S., VoiceStream Wireless, wireless

• `Tear Down This Wall'.(Company Business and Marketing)

  - 2000-07-31

  Deutsche Telekom's proposed $50+ billion merger with VoiceStream Wireless backed the two carriers against the Wall Street last week, with both issues trading significantly lower. But the self-protective reaction of stockholders--some of them skeptical about the common sense of a high price-per-share transaction--was an ineffectual...

  Tags: carrier, Deutsche Telekom AG, Government, marketing, NETWORKING, telecommunications, Telephony, U.S., U.S. Congress, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• DT Faces FCC Ire, Higher Price In VoiceStream Quest

  - 2000-07-24

  Opposition by the FCC chief to Deutsche Telekom's [DT] plan to acquire U.S. GSM operator VoiceStream Wireless [VSTR] is as stiff as the price is steep. "I will carefully scrutinize any transaction in which a foreign government-controlled telecommunications carrier seeks to control a U.S. carrier," said FCC Chairman...

  Tags: Deutsche Telekom AG, FCC, Government, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, U.S., VoiceStream Wireless