Throughout AT&T’sT - fluid acquisitionexplainer this morning , the issue repeat most often was 95 % . That ’s the amount of LTE coverage that execs repeatedly promise their T - Mobile purchase would bring to the US . It ’s a number that ’s appealing to consumer — and , AT&T hopes , regulators — but do n’t get too emotional quite yet .
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AT&T ’s going to use T - Mobile ’s existing 1700MHz AWS airwaves to complement ( not replace ) its own 700MHz LTE spectrum . But this grand 4 chiliad rollout is pass away to take meter . Specifically , it will be until 2013 at the other that they extend to 80 % LTE insurance coverage , and they have n’t yet provided an estimation as to how long after that it will take for that last , rural 15 % to get juiced .
So why flog 95 % if we ’re years and year away ? Because one of AT&T ’s major selling points to the FCC is that AT&T - Mo will promote the politics ’s National Broadband Plan by providing such broad coverage to Americans . The Leslie Townes Hope , if you ’re a flattop essay to make a spate , is that the government will care more about that end than they do about the pip competitiveness will take when you go from four major carriers to three , and two GSM providers to one . [ AT&T ]
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