T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert
The fifth-largest wireless carrier in the States, UScellular is owned by Telephone and Data Systems Inc. which announced last year that it is exploring “strategic alternatives” for its wireless operations. T-Mobile might have some competition for UScellular. Even though Dish Networks is in the midst of having serious monetary problems, Tom Cullen, Executive Vice President of corporate development at Dish, gave some good reasons why his company would be interested in UScellular.
But like he did back in September, Sievert shut down the rumors without completely closing the door. “There’s no big deal on the horizon that we see that would knock us off our pace, and I think that’s important calculus,” Sievert said. “If something presented itself, it made a lot of sense for shareholders, our job is to bring it to you. But right now, we don’t see it.”