Dobson Considers Sale, Too
AT&T, T-Mobile, or private equity group?
As for T-Mobile, I am not sure whether Deutsche Telekom is really interested in making anymore U.S. buyouts. Yes, they did buy out VoiceStream and absorbed them under the T-Mobile brand. However, it was once rumore...
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I think AT&T Wireless was not bought for the number of subscribers, but for other assets, such as spectrum licenses, and the infrastructure was compatible, and subscriber and employees came with the package.
My point is it would allow AT&T to cover more rural area, while also giving them more Spectrum in these markets to target these customers, while expanding the "largest voice and data network".
Honestly 3 or 4 billion is a drop in the bucket to this company. They spend more just to turn the lights on and fire up the computers everyday.
AT&T wireless started offering cell coverage here in the early 90's, and I signed up with them shortly after because they were one of the first to offer a statewide/nationwide flat rate without roaming charges. (AK is a big state, and if your job keeps you on the move, roaming fees can kill ya) Things were kosher until early 2003 when AT&T put out a full page ad in the local paper notifying it's customers that we would all be Dobson customers by the end of the week, as the two were basically doing a region swap, and AT&T was trading us for some of Dobson's customers in Californ...
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