Seems like Verizon Wireless is winning the wireless spectrum war.
But let's look at the recent wireless deals that have succeeded and failed.
First... Verizon.
* Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Brighthouse Networks sold a whole lot of AWS spectrum to Verizon (»
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* Cox Cable does the same.
All of these deals were successful deals that went through with not one hitch.
Second... AT&T LOL
They have spent a whole lot of cash lobbying their deal with T-Mobile to buy it. Many of the talking points for why the merger should happen have been proven to be false and that even with their massive lobbying machine they are finding it increasingly more difficult to grease this deal through Washington. More and more people in the financial world have been saying that this deal is dead. Not only that, but because AT&T has been concentrating so much of their attention on a failed T-Mobile deal, they have been being passed by by their competitors like Verizon. Even
The Motley Fool have said that AT&T has lost its way.
AT&T said that they needed more spectrum to deal with the bandwidth crunches of 4G speeds, hence the deal with T-Mobile which has shown that more than likely it's not going to go through. Meanwhile, they've already spent a lot of money trying to get this deal through Washington instead of investing their money into their network.
Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless has been getting their additional spectrum through other means that have been shown to be far more acceptable than what their counterpart, AT&T, has been trying to do. Makes you wonder why the CEO of Verizon Wireless said that he was "not worried" about AT&T. Seems that him being not worried about AT&T is justified. They don't need to be worried about AT&T, however... AT&T should be worried about themselves because with this news about Verizon Wireless getting another batch of AWS spectrum, yeah... the fail boat has arrived and the captain is knocking on AT&T's door.
So who do you think is the smarter company? I'll give you a hint... it's not AT&T. LOL