AT&T Purchases FLO Spectrum from Qualcomm
Dec 20, 2010, 8:12 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Dec 20, 2010, 8:13 AM
AT&T today announced that it has agreed to purchase 700MHz spectrum from Qualcomm for $1.92 billion. The spectrum in question is 12MHz in the D and E blocks that covers 70 million people in the top five U.S. markets, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, L.A. and San Francisco. An additional 6MHz in the D block covers another 230 million people across the rest of the country, making a total of 300 million POPs covered. AT&T will use this spectrum to supplement its existing 700MHz spectrum, and use it in a downlink capacity for its future LTE network.
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Tmobile should have been all over this
Looks like TMobile let a perfect opportunity slip by them to obtain the spectrum needed for their 4th generation network. HSPA+ is cool but from my personal experience it has been very unreliable even in great coverage areas. Plus the benefits from LTE and WiMax are just too numerous to point out. Oh well, at least my phone bill will be pretty reasonable 🤨
well the government is going to be auctioning off some 700mhz in july soo they should be all over that, maybe they thought they would get it cheaper then.
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T-Mobile has allowed merger opportunities to slip through their fingers over the years. What is particularly annoying is their insistence on only using 1900mHz spectrum for the longest time and NOW look at them dependent upon that bastardized AWS spe...
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