Verizon: Seidenberg Sees No Reason To Merge with Vodafone

Verizon Communications (VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg today indicated that there is no reason for the company to pursue a merger with Vodafone (VOD), which owns a 45% stake in Verizon Wireless. (Verizon owns the rest.)

“Absent new information, a merger doesn’t seem to have a lot of appeal,” Seidenberg told reporters today at a Council on Foreign Relations event, according to Reuters.

Seidenberg also said Verizon Wireless is open to selling the iPhone, but that timing would be up to Apple; in particular, he said the company would like to carry an LTE version of the phone.

“It’s their call,” he said. “Eventually it’s our view we’ll get to carrying Apple.”

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