Bloomberg reports that Deutsche Telekon is exploring a merger of its T-Mobile USA unit with MetroPCS.
DT would eventually be able to take its ball and go home after a painful decade in the US wireless market.
They bought a US carrier at the top of the market in 1999 for $50 bln in cash, which along with countless European M&A deals into Silicon Valley at that time supported the dollar during the tail-end of the dotcom bubble…
One more example of a European company returning to its home market…
