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AT&T Wireless Bidding Begins

Jan 28, 2004, 11:49 AM by (staff)

Two new announcements yesterday set the stage for a formal bid process for the sale of AT&T Wireless. Early in the day, NTT DoCoMo waived its right to be consulted on merger talks. The right is part of the terms of DoCoMo's 16-percent stake in the company; waiving it allows DoCoMo to participate as a bidder. Later in the day, AT&T Wireless announced a February 13th dealine for interested parties to submit formal bids to buy the company.

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cj2600

Jan 28, 2004, 5:35 PM

NTT DoCoMo

I'd love to see DoCoMo take a bite out of America's wireless community. To have Japanese tech brought stateside? Think of what it'd do for fast-tracking other companies to produce higher quality phones (or at least ones with better megapixel cameras) ^_^

moobak

Problem is NTT DoCoMo uses a variation of CDMA. :/

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mrgarcia3

Being in the wireless business for the past 5 years....DoCoMo honestly would just sell their shares of ATTWS and get out....unless they want to use a GSM/WCDMA phone here in the US. Customer wise I would love to see T-Mobile bid for ATTWS. WHY?? Be...
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