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Sprint Completes Deal for Wireless TV, Internet Service.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1999 by Jarman, Max

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 30 -- Sprint completed its acquisition Wednesday of People's Choice TV and its SpeedChoice subsidiaries, which combined have about 4,000 wireless television and high-speed Internet customers in the Phoenix area.

The acquisition will enable Sprint to bring to the Valley its Integrated On Demand Network, or ION, service that includes local and long-distance telephone service and high-speed internet access. Sprint plans to offer the service for a flat fee that could include virtually unlimited long-distance calling.

The digital ION service, which will be rolled out in the first or second quarter of 2000, would be delivered over People's Choice infrastructure that includes broadcast towers on South...

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