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Just when you though the marriage of T-Mobile and Sprint were to happen some time down the road, Deutsche Telekom’s CFO has made a comment that might have put an end to the speculations. Recent reports have hinted T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, was in the works of acquiring Sprint – possibly merging the number three and four carriers in the US. Timotheus Hoettges, Deutsche Telekom CFO, made a comment at how competitive the US mobile market is currently and that a point has been reached with the four big carriers. It’s not like he mentioned that there would be no major headway between the rankings of the major domestic carriers, but a comparison to the current status of the European mobile phone market made it sound like it. Hoettges stated in a conference call in Frankfurt that “There are four national players in the U.S. market for 300 million households, while in Europe, where we have 350 million households, there are 50-70 operators. We believe in our chances of being the challenger.” So for now it looks like everyone is staying put.

via GigaOM

The Telegraph reports that Deutsche Telekom, owners of T-Mobile, could submit a multi-million dollar bid for Sprint Nextel in the U.S.

After announcing a joint venture between T-Mobile UK and Orange UK to create Britain’s largest mobile phone company, which we covered, it is said that the company has called in banking advisers to assess the value of a U.S. deal. If the two companies did merge, the new entity would challenge AT&T as the second largest carrier in the U.S.

This isn’t the first time it’s been reported that DT is considering an acquisition of Sprint. Last May, German magazine Der Spiegel reported that that the companies could merge, as we reported. The hurdles that stand in the way of the deal, many technical in nature, remain unchanged.

At their hearts, Sprint and T-Mobile are incompatible networks. T-Mobile is a GSM network, while Sprint is based on CDMA technology. Sprint’s Nextel business is based on iDEN, further complicating things. Also, both companies are considering far different fourth generation mobile technologies. Sprint has positioned itself with WiMAX, while T-Mobile has given its allegiance to Long Term Evolution. [via mocoNews]