Wells Fargo Securities analyst Jennifer Fritzsche estimates that a long sought-after purchase of T-Mobile by Sprint would cost the carrier’s parent company SoftBank $93.4 billion, assuming the new Trump Administration would green-light the deal.
“Sprint may have to fork over more than $90 billion in total consideration if it hopes to strike a deal to acquire T-Mobile, Jennifer Fritzsche of Wells Fargo Securities said in a research note. The nation’s fourth-largest mobile network and its parent SoftBank have long targeted T-Mobile, but efforts to merge the two U.S.”