LONDON (Standard&Poor's) Sept. 17, 2007--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that its ratings and outlook on Germany's largest telecommunications services provider Deutsche Telekom AG (DT; A-/Negative/A-2) remain unchanged following the announcement that the group's U.S.-based mobile subsidiary T-Mobile USA Inc. has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. for $2.4 billion in cash and assumed debt. The acquisition will enable T-Mobile USA to expand its network coverage and footprint in the U.S. and will add 1.1 million customers to T-Mobile USA's network. These elements balance the expected negative impact on DT's credit ratios as a result of the transaction, which would cause adjusted debt to EBITDA to rise by about 0.1x (this
