Deutsche Telekom open to sale of T-Mobile at $35/share or higher -Bloomberg

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG (Xetra: 555750 - news) is open to a sale of its T-Mobile US Inc unit, if an offer values the business at $35 a share or more, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Senior managers at Deutsche Telekom, which rejected an offer from Iliad SA (Paris: FR0004035913 - news) for T-Mobile earlier this month, discussed the business' valuation at a strategy meeting on Thursday in Berlin, Bloomberg said, citing a source.

Deutsche Telekom could not immediately be reached for comment. T-Mobile did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Iliad declined to comment on the report.

T-Mobile US shares were up 2.2 percent at $30.10 on Thursday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange.

Deutsche Telekom derives about a third of its sales and a fifth of core profit from the United States, but believes T-Mobile US lacks critical mass, frequencies and capital to compete with leaders AT&T Inc (Sao Paolo: ATTB34.SA - news) and Verizon Communications (Xetra: 868402 - news) Inc.

(Reporting by Karen Rebelo in Bangalore, Marina Lopes in Washington and Leila Abboud in Paris; editing by Matthew Lewis)