AT&T Buys $2.5 Billion in 700Mhz Spectrum Licenses

AT&T ’s agreed to drop $ 2.5 billion into the pockets of Aloha Partners for a goodish lump of the 700Mhz spectrum—12 megahertz worth covering 196 million hoi polloi in 281 mart . It ’s the same frequence that the FCC will beauctioning offlicenses to in just a twosome of months . AT&T says they have n’t decided what they ’re going to do with it yet — but honestly it seems like they ’d have an idea of what they want to do with something they paid $ 2.5 billion for .

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Mobile video or expanded data serve seem most likely . Regardless , they ’ll have time if they ’re genuinely undecided since they wo n’t get their handwriting on it until at least 2008 , when the deal close , with some of it tied up until 2009 . It ’ll be interesting to see how aggressively they bid in the upcoming auction , considering the coin they just drop — is this move a style to sidestep the dubiousness of the auction ( which Verizon clear plans on diving into , intemperate ) or are they planning on trump up even more ? We ’ll bang soon enough . [ Yahoo!/AP ]

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