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2017-10-31

SoftBank Reportedly Ends Sprint $S & T-Mobile $TMUS Merger Talks

UPDATE Nov 4, 2017: Sprint and T-Mobile call off merger after months of talks | reuters.com.

SoftBank (majority owner of Sprint) reportedly ended talks to merge Sprint (domain: sprint.com) with T-Mobile (domain: t-mobile.com) because of a dispute over control. T-Mobile's German parent, Deutsche Telecom, insisted on a controlling stake in the merged company--"SoftBank's board discussed at a meeting Friday that the company [Softbank] would not give up control. The decision was made Monday to call the talks off."--asia.nikkei.com.

DomainMondo.com Editor's note: This was easily foreseen and should have been a deal-killer from the very beginning, or before talks even began, since Deutsche Telekom (majority owner of T-Mobile US, Inc.), had always insisted on maintaining a controlling stake in the merged enterprise. SoftBank essentially bought a "pig in a poke" when it entered into the 2013 merger transaction that gave it controlling interest in U.S. fourth-place wireless carrier Sprint.

SoftBank Said to Halt Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Talks

Bloomberg.com video above published Oct 30, 2017: SoftBank's talks to merge Sprint with T-Mobile have hit a serious snag, according to people familiar with the matter, throwing the deal into jeopardy after months of talks. Bloomberg Intelligence's John Butler reports on "Bloomberg Markets."

Shares in both T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint (NYSE: S) were down Monday on the news:
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS)
Sprint (NYSE: S)
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2016-10-24

Q3 2016 Results Monday, LIVE Webcasts, AT&T $T, T-Mobile $TMUS

Monday, Oct 24: AT&T 8:30am EDT;  T-Mobile 10:00am EDT:
Above: 1-month chart of  AT&T $T shares
AT&T Inc.
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate, headquartered at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas. AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the world by revenue. As of 2016, it is also the 17th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with 130.4 million mobile customers. AT&T was ranked at #6 on the 2015 rankings of the world's most valuable brands published by Millward Brown Optimor.--Wikipedia.org
Stock Exchange: Symbol | NYSE: T
Principal domain: att.com
AT&T Investor Relations
Monday, October 24, 2016 8:30 a.m. ET
AT&T Acquisiton of Time Warner and 3Q16 Results: Click here for webcast 
Time Warner and Q3 2016 slides (pdf)

AT&T and Time Warner [timewarner.com | NYSE: TWX | @twxcorp] will discuss the transaction and AT&T’s 3Q earnings. Links to the webcast and accompanying documents will be available on both AT&T’s and Time Warner’s Investor Relations websites. AT&T has cancelled its previously scheduled call to discuss earnings, which had been set for Tuesday, October 25.

Q3 2016 Results:
AT&T (NYSE:T): Q3 EPS of $0.74 in-line. Revenue of $40.89B (+4.6% Y/Y) misses by $260M.

Increases Quarterly Dividend by 2.1%, 33rd Consecutive Annual Increase
Consolidated revenues of $40.9 billion, up 4.6% with DIRECTV acquisition
Operating income up 8.2%; Net income attributable to AT&T up 11.2%
Cash from operations of $11.0 billion; Free cash flow of $5.2 billion
Diluted EPS of $0.54 as reported and $0.74 as adjusted, compared to $0.50 and $0.74 in the year-ago quarter
-2.3 million wireless net adds driven by connected devices, Mexico and Cricket
-U.S. wireless postpaid churn of 1.05%, down 11 basis points year over year
-Strong U.S. wireless operating margin of 29.6%; best-ever U.S. wireless service EBITDA margin of 50.1%
-700,000 branded smartphones added to U.S. subscriber base
-323,000 U.S. DIRECTV net adds with TV subscriber base stable
-171,000 IP broadband net adds
-Full-year guidance on track to meet or exceed expectations

Third-Quarter Earnings Package:
News Release
Investor Briefing PDF
Form 8-K
Slide Presentation
Financial and Operational Results:
Adobe PDF
MS Excel
Supplemental Files:
Financial and Operational Information
Non-GAAP Discussions

Top: $TMUS 2013-16 chart; Bottom: $TMUS 1-day chart Friday, Oct 21, 2016
T-Mobile Q3 2016 Earnings Call: Behind-the-Scenes Livestream:

10am EDT Monday, Oct 24, 2016: Watch the live behind-the-scenes of @JohnLegere and the @TMobile senior leadership team as they deliver Q3 2016 results. Tweet your questions to @TMobileIR using $TMUS.

T-Mobile US, Inc.
T-Mobile US, Inc. is one of the four major wireless network operators in the United States (others are At&T, Verizon, and Sprint). The German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom (DT) is its majority shareholder, through DT's holding company T-Mobile International AG. T-Mobile is the third largest wireless carrier in the United States with 67.4 million customers as of Q2 2016.  Its headquarters are located in Bellevue, Washington.
Stock Exchange: Symbol | NASDAQ: TMUS
Principal domain: t-mobile.com
Investor Relations: investor.t-mobile.com

Q3 2016 Earnings Conference Call Webcast 10:00 am EDT Monday, Oct 24, 2016. Similar to past quarters, prepared remarks will be kept to a minimum in order to provide more time for free-flowing dialogue with analysts, investors, media and consumers.

Participants will have multiple ways to submit questions including via phone, Twitter (tweet @TMobileIR or @JohnLegere using $TMUS) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/JohnJLegere via post comment). T-Mobile will also take questions via text and respond to some of them on the call (send a text message to 313131, enter the keyword TMUS followed by a space). The call will be live-streamed via the Company's Investor Relations website at http://investor.t-mobile.com.

T-Mobile US - Q3 2016: Q3 EPS of $0.27 beat by $0.04. Revenues of $9.2B (+17.2% Y/Y) miss by $220M. 969K new postpaid customers, net income up to $366M from $138M a year earlier.
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