{"id":13575,"date":"2009-07-03T18:27:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=13575"},"modified":"2011-09-02T11:50:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T08:50:38","slug":"deutsche-telekom-wants-asset-swap-for-t-mobile-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/07\/03\/deutsche-telekom-wants-asset-swap-for-t-mobile-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Telekom wants asset swap for T-Mobile UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"Size_9 Bold Black\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>FT names Vodafone Turkey as likely candidate to swap assets with German operator&#8217;s U.K. unit.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"Size_9 Black NormalP ArticleBody\">\n<p>Deutsche Telekom AG executives would prefer an asset-swap deal with any suitor for its T-Mobile UK unit, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing two people familiar with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The executives are interested in swapping T-Mobile for an asset in another country rather than selling or merging the business, although they acknowledge it would be a difficult deal to consummate.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said Vodafone Turkey &#8211; a unit of Vodafone Group PLC, which is reportedly mulling a bid for T-Mobile &#8211; is the ideal for an asset swap. One of the sources said EUR3 billion would be the &#8220;absolute minimum value&#8221; for T-Mobile if Deutsche Telekom opts to sell.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.totaltele.com\/view.aspx?ID=446976\">Total Telecom<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT names Vodafone Turkey as likely candidate to swap assets with German operator&#8217;s U.K. unit. Deutsche Telekom AG executives would prefer an asset-swap deal with any suitor for its T-Mobile UK unit, the Financial Times reported Thursday, citing two people familiar with the company. The executives are interested in swapping T-Mobile for an asset in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":13576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,12,845,89,94],"tags":[1835,1836,1834,1837,1838],"class_list":["post-13575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-germany","category-scitech","category-turkey","category-uk","tag-deutsche-telekom-ag","tag-financial-times","tag-german-operator","tag-t-mobile-uk","tag-vodafone-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}