NEW YORK - Dish Network's combative chairman, Charlie Ergen, on Tuesday defended his $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel, saying the debt load the deal would create for the combined company will be manageable,Tory Burch shoes.

"We will take on more leverage than we have today," Ergen said in an interview with The Associated Press. "But it's not excessive. In today's market,gucci outlet bags, at today's rates, it's certainly not excessive leverage."

Ergen himself is the largest shareholder in Englewood,http://www.douuo.com/airjordan.html, Colo.-based Dish Network Corp., the country's third-largest pay-TV provider.

"I have the most to lose. I have obviously thought about this," Ergen said.

After five years of buying wireless spectrum and trying to create partnerships with cellphone companies,Gucci Outlet, Ergen on Monday unleashed his biggest bet yet, an unsolicited offer for Overland Park, Kan.-based Sprint Nextel Corp., the country's third-largest cellphone company. Sprint has already agreed to sell 70 percent of itself to Softbank Corp. of Japan, a deal Dish is trying to head off.

The deal is driven by technology trends, which are leaving behind one-way TV services like Dish. By buying Sprint, Ergen wants to give Dish a future as a provider of TV content, inside and outside the home.

But Wall Street analysts believe Ergen may be grasping for too much,hongae.com.

"There is one foreboding element. And that is the cost," said David Novosel, a corporate bond analyst at Gimme Credit.

Sprint is heavily indebted already, and Dish would issue about $9 billion in debt to finance the acquisition,longchamp pas cher, bringing the total for the combined company to $47 billion, Novosel calculates. That's about 5.8 times the combined company's annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, which would call into question the company's ability to pay off its debt, he said.

To Ergen, that's of no great concern. Dish had about that level of leverage in 2001,Hogan Scarpe, he said, and worked that down over a decade as its satellites started paying themselves off. Now, the cash generated by Dish's profitable but stagnant satellite-TV business would let the combined company pay off creditors, he said.

Novosel also believes Dish is being optimistic in calculating the savings it could achieve by combining its back-office functions and call centers with Sprint's, and in the effectiveness of cross-selling TV and cellular service. Related articles:

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