Regulators Approve AT&T's Acquisition of Alltel, With Conditions Back in January AT&T announced they'd be paying $780 million to acquire Alltel -- or what was left of Alltel after Verizon acquired most of it back in 2008. After seeing some FCC delays regulators have now approved the deal -- with a few "conditions." According to the FCC announcement, AT&T needs to deploy HSPA+ and LTE across all of Alltel’s current cell sites within the next 18 months. AT&T also needs to keep Alltel's CDMA 2G and 3G (EVDO) networks online until June 15, 2015 in order to aid roaming partners.
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  skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | They must do those things or what? Nothin'. | |
|  | | | Re: They must do those things or what? 99.2% of the time it's something the company was going to do anyway dressed up as an obligation. | |
| | | skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | Re: They must do those things or what? And 0.8% of the time they flip the bird at regulators and nothing happens.
AT&T will do whatever it wants. Regulators would sign off on a leaf if it happened to blow in through the window.
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Nocchi rules. | |
| | | | | | Re: They must do those things or what? except when it comes to dish and directv merging. Comcast could merge with time warner before dish and directv merged. | |
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join:2001-04-18
Douglasville, GA | AT&T needs to deploy HSPA+ and LTE across all of Alltel146;s... That made me think of just how many cell tower deaths are going to occur because of this. | |
| | | | Re: AT&T needs to deploy HSPA+ and LTE across all of Alltel146;s Why would the cell tower deaths occur at any greater rate with AT&T installing the LTE instead of Alltel? | |
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| | Coverage? Anyone know what they're coverage was? I'm curious if this will improve existng AT&T service as more sites will be online and possibly more densely covered... Or if this will expand the footprint into new areas... | |
| | | | Re: Coverage? What was left of Alltel in Ohio was rual, so it should aid native AT&T users that may of only got 3G now get better 3G if not 4G and up. | |
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 anhisr
join:2001-12-01
Ballwin, MO | Where the customers are Alltel's current network covers roughly 4.6 million subscribers in primarily rural markets in Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and Georgia. | |
| | | | Re: Where the customers are That should bode well for AT&T...
Idaho - AT&T doesn't cover a lot of it on LTE, and only parts on HSPA+. Also, this may cover up their roaming.
Illinois - AT&T has some rural areas in the south that its behind on and are roaming (south-eastern)
Carolinas don't look too bad, but any 850MHz would help if they have it (AT&T doesn't in the Carolinas AFAIK)
Georgia - eastern/south eastern rural = not much coverage, as well as a roaming stretch near Columbus. | |
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phazah
join:2004-05-02
Findlay, OH | att takeover of alltel This really sticks..
alltel had really good plans... talk text in one package that was economical...
ATT, is over priced for little service | |
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