Company Reaffirms Its Resolve for Special Broadband Leadership
Dallas, Texas, December 19, 2011
AT&T Corporation. (New york stock exchange: T) stated today that whenever an intensive overview of options it's agreed with Deutsche Telekom AG to finish its bid to get T-Mobile USA, which started in March of the year.
Those things through the Federal Communications Commission and also the Department of Justice to bar this transaction don't alter the facts from the U.S. wireless industry. It is among the most very competitive industries on the planet, having a mounting requirement for more spectrum which has not reduced and should be addressed immediately. The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination might have offered an interim means to fix this spectrum shortage. Even without the such steps, clients is going to be injured and needed investment is going to be stifled.
"AT&T will still be aggressive in leading the mobile Internet revolution," stated Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and Boss. "In the last 4 years we've invested more within our systems than every other U.S. company. Consequently, today we deliver best-in-class special broadband speeds hooking up mobile phones, pills and emerging products in a record pace and that we are very well arrived with this countrywide 4G LTE deployment.
"To meet the requirements in our clients, we'll still invest," Stephenson stated. "However, adding ability to meet these needs will need policymakers to complete a couple of things. First, soon, they ought to permit the free marketplaces to operate to ensure that additional spectrum can be obtained to satisfy the immediate needs from the U.S. wireless industry, including expeditiously approving our purchase of unused Qualcomm spectrum presently pending prior to the FCC. Second, policymakers should enact legislation to satisfy our nation's longer-term spectrum needs.
"The mobile Internet is really a dynamic industry that is one critical driver in rebuilding American economic growth and job creation, but only when companies are permitted to react rapidly to customer needs and market forces," Stephenson stated.
To mirror the break-up factors due Deutsche Telekom, AT&T will recognize a pretax accounting control of $4 billion within the fourth quarter of 2011. Furthermore, AT&T will enter a mutually advantageous roaming agreement with Deutsche Telekom.
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