Networks
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How The Cloak-And-Dagger AT&T-Mobile Deal Went Down
A $US39 billion deal that would create the biggest wireless carrier in the US; it’s hard to imagine keeping that kind of fiasco a secret. But AT&T had to, otherwise opposition would start before the ink was even dry – even for the biggest corporate donor in Washington. Here’s how it went down. [WSJ]
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How The New AT&T-Mobile Is Going To Bone You Hardcore
If we haven’t already made it fairly clear, let’s be straight up: We believe that AT&T’s swallowing of T-Mobile USA is a bad thing for everybody except for AT&T and Deutsche Telekom. Let us count the ways.
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AT&T-Mo Would Blanket 95% Of America In LTE… Someday
Throughout AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition explainer this morning, the number repeated most often was 95 per cent. That’s the amount of LTE coverage that execs repeatedly promised their T-Mobile purchase would bring to the US. It’s a number that’s appealing to consumers – and, AT&T hopes, regulators – but don’t get too excited quite yet.
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Telstra’s Shareholder Vote On NBN Delayed
With the Opposition playing silly buggers in parliament at the end of last year, it was always going to be a tough ask for Telstra to meet the July 1 deadline of putting the NBN agreement to shareholders. This morning the company confirmed in a statement to the Stock Exchange that the negotiations wouldn’t be…