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Filed by Deutsche Telekom AG
Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
Subject Company: VoiceStream Wireless Corporation
Exchange Act File Number 000 29667
THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS DISSEMINATED BY DEUTSCHE
TELEKOM AG AND VOICESTREAM WIRELESS
CORPORATION ON SEPTEMBER 7, 2000
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Bonn, September 7, 2000
U.S. Department of Justice clears VoiceStream/Deutsche Telekom transaction
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VoiceStream Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ: VSTR) and Deutsche Telekom AG
(NYSE: DT, FSE: DTE) announced today the expiration of the waiting period
for their definitive merger agreement under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust
Improvements Act of 1976. The U.S. Department of Justice clearance, under
Hart-Scott-Rodino, is the first step in the U.S. regulatory review of the
transaction. The merger was announced on July 24, 2000.
The VoiceStream and Deutsche Telekom transaction remains subject to U.S.
regulatory approvals and clearances, including by the Federal Communications
Commission and the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United
States (CFIUS), approval by VoiceStream shareholders, and customary closing
conditions.
ABOUT VOICESTREAM
Based in Bellevue, WA, VoiceStream Wireless is a leading provider of wireless
communications services in the United States. Nearly three out of every four
people in the United States live in areas currently licensed to be served by
VoiceStream or its affiliates. VoiceStream is the largest provider of personal
communication services using the globally accepted GSM technology in the United
States. VoiceStream is a member of the North American GSM Alliance LLC, a group
of U.S. and Canadian digital wireless PCS carriers. The GSM Alliance helps
provide GSM wireless communications for their customers in more than 5,500 U.S.
and Canadian cities and towns as well as international service. Adopted by 149
countries, GSM is the most widely used digital wireless standard in the world
with more than 330 million subscribers on six continents, which offers an
unprecedented roaming advantage to GSM wireless consumers. VoiceStream has
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roaming agreements with more than 125 of the major operators worldwide providing
service in 55 countries. Visit the VoiceStream web site at www.voicestream.com.
ABOUT DEUTSCHE TELEKOM
Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest telecommunications company and the fourth
largest carrier worldwide, with 1999 revenues of EUR 35.5 billion ($ 35.7
billion). Deutsche Telekom offers its customers a complete range of products and
services through more than 48 million telephone lines. It is a leading provider
of high-speed digital access lines, with more than 15.3 million marketed ISDN
channels, and new ADSL services that will be available in 60 percent of Germany
by the end of 2000 and 90 percent of the country by the end of 2001. In online
services, Deutsche Telekom's subsidiary T-Online is Europe's largest Internet
provider with more than 6.0 million customers. Via its mobile subsidiary
T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom serves approximately 22.6 million mobile telephony
customers in Europe through majority-controlled operations. Deutsche Telekom
will become the second largest European provider of information technology
solutions to multinational companies worldwide upon regulatory approval of its
majority investment in debis Systemhaus. Visit the Deutsche Telekom web site at:
www.telekom.de/international.
Disclaimer:
This press release contains certain statements that are neither reported
financial results nor other historical information. These statements are
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe-harbor provisions of
the U.S. federal securities laws. Because these forward-looking statements are
subject to risks and uncertainties, actual future results may differ materially
from those expressed in or implied by the statements. Many of these risks and
uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond the companies' ability to
control or estimate precisely, such as future market conditions, currency
fluctuations, the behavior of other market participants, the actions of
governmental regulators and other risk factors detailed in VoiceStream's and
Deutsche Telekom's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The companies
do not undertake any obligation to publicly release any revisions to these
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of
this press release.
Investors and security holders are advised to read the proxy
statement/prospectus regarding the VoiceStream-Deutsche Telekom merger
referenced in this press release, when it becomes available, because it will
contain important information. The proxy statement/prospectus will be filed with
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the Securities and Exchange Commission by VoiceStream and Deutsche Telekom.
Security holders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement/prospectus (when
available) and other related documents filed by VoiceStream and Deutsche Telekom
at the Commission's website at www.sec.gov or at the Commission's public
reference room located at 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington D.C 20549 or at one
of the Commission's other public reference rooms in New York, New York and
Chicago, Illinois. Please call the Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further
information of the public reference rooms. When available, the proxy
statement/prospectus and the other documents may also be obtained from Deutsche
Telekom by contacting Deutsche Telekom, Attention: Petra Michalscheck, Investor
Relations, 140 Friedrich-Ebert-Allee, 53113 Bonn, Germany and/or Deutsche
Telekom, Inc., Attention: Brigitte Weniger, 280 Park Avenue, 26th Floor, New
York, New York 10017; and VoiceStream Wireless Corporation by contacting
VoiceStream Wireless Corporation, Attention: Ken Prussing, Executive Director,
Investor Relations, 3650 131st Avenue SE, Bellevue, WA 98006.
VoiceStream and its directors, executive officers and certain other members of
VoiceStream management and employees may be soliciting proxies from VoiceStream
stockholders in favor of the merger. Information concerning the participants
will be set forth in the proxy statement/ prospectus when it is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
Contact information:
VoiceStream
Investors: Ken Prussing, +1 877-853-8682
Media: Kim Thompson, +1 425-653-5027
Shandwick: Mark Day, +1 202-585-2104
Deutsche Telekom
Investors: Nils Paellmann, +1 212-424-2951
Media: Bill McAndrews, +49-171-561-5441
Kekst and Company: Todd Fogarty, +1 212-521-4854