If the sale of the company is the only recourse to get out of this dilemma, then they are in far greater problems, for Caricel is so tainted, I'm not even sure any one would risk their billions to buy it given the tangled mess it is in and the fact they had very little time to build up their subscriber base to make the purchase worth it. Unless an investor can get it at a deeply discounted price with some reassurance from the US, no way I see this sale can happen.