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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedAT&T promises wireless broadband trial in attempt to seal BellSouth purchase.(News)
RCR Wireless News, October, 2006
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
AT&T Inc. offered to conduct a series of wireless broadband trials as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning Federal Communications Commission approval of its proposed $79 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp.
AT&T said the newly merged company would launch 10 trials of wireless broadband Internet service in the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz bands by the end of 2007, with at least five of the trials conducted in BellSouth's territory. BellSouth already offers wireless broadband services using its 2.3 GHz spectrum holdings in a handful of southeast markets.
AT&T also promised to donate $1 million to further public-safety communications. The conditions on special-access lines proposed by AT&T are similar to those...
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