Euteneuer was speaking at the Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance Conference in Scottsdale, which was webcast.

He was also asked about a possible deal with Dish Network, with a partner. Dish Network has been seeking approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to use a spectrum band that has been dedicated to satellites, called AWS-4, for a land-based LTE network.

"If somebody owns spectrum and has the idea [of] sharing that spectrum and having it run on somebody else's network versus building it out themselves, I think there's always ways to figure out how to do that from a technical standpoint. I'd have to talk to the engineers specifically, but I don't think there is that much in our way from making something like that happen," he said.

Previously, Sprint agreed to host a network being planned by LightSquared, letting the latter carrier piggyback on Sprint's network to save money. The earlier this year.

The IDG News Service