AT&T To FCC: We Need Tmobile NOW!

AT&T released some very interesting tidbits of info. Among them, the following:

AT&T has worked tirelessly to address this data explosion through a wide variety of means.  For example, it has purchased spectrum on the open market when available and has added thousands of cell sites and additional backhaul capacity to its network grid.  AT&T has also deployed distributed antenna systems, 24,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country, and Wi-Fi Hotzones in heavy usage areas—such as Chicago’s Wrigleyville, New York’s Times Square, and others—to off-load traffic from its mobile network.  All told, AT&T invested $21.1 billion in capital expenditures to upgrade its wireless network between 2008 and 2010.   These types of measures, however, are increasingly inadequate solutions to AT&T’s growing capacity constraints.  AT&T is using up its spectrum at an accelerating rate, and the wireless broadband revolution is just beginning.

That, at least to me, sounds like the very truth of the matter– 18 months ago.

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