T-Mobile logoShares of T-Mobile went up today after Bloomberg reported that Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, is willing to negotiate a sale for the wireless carrier.

Bloomberg noted that Deutsche Telekom, which owns 67 percent of the Bellevue-based U.S. carrier, is entertaining offers that value T-Mobile at $35 per share or more. This comes after Deutsche Telekom turned down a $15 billion acquisition offer ($33 per share) for T-Mobile from France’s Illiad earlier this month.

It also follows Sprint’s attempt at acquiring T-Mobile. Sprint had reportedly offered as much as $32 billion to buy the nation’s fourth-largest carrier.

In June, T-Mobile CEO John Legere made it clear that he sees some type of merger as a potential key to ensuring the company’s growth and success over he long run.

“I know what we’ve done in the last year-and-a-half is a small inkling of what real competition is like,” Legere told GeekWire. “In order to keep it going, there’s things we need in the long term — scale, spectrum, etc. And one way to get those is consolidation.”

Meanwhile, T-Mobile has unleashed a flurry of new promotions in the past month as it takes aim at Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T.

T-Mobile is currently trading at $30.23 per share, with a market cap at $23.7 billion.

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