Elliott targets Deutsche Telekom, opposes $300B T-Mobile merger - Bloomberg News

Elliott’s move puts the activist directly at odds with Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges, who has been pursuing a full combination of the two companies since at least April 2026. Deutsche Telekom holds roughly a 53% stake in T-Mobile US, and Hoettges’s plan would have created the world’s largest wireless operator by market capitalization. Instead, Elliott is pressing management to consider alternative paths to shareholder value, with buybacks cited as the preferred mechanism, according to Bloomb