AT & T to 1.9 billion U.S. dollars to buy Qualcomm's wireless spectrum

AT & T to 1.9 billion U.S. dollars to buy Qualcomm's wireless spectrum

AT & T on Monday (12/20) announced that it has agreed with Qualcomm (Qualcomm) an agreement, the amount of $ 1,925,000,000 will be buying the Lower 700 MHz band licenses in order to strengthen AT & T to provide advanced 4G mobile broadband capabilities.


Qualcomm is currently using this band to support its subsidiary, FLO TV business operations. However, because Qualcomm had previously said it would reassess the FLO TV business strategy and plans to terminate operations in March next year, it was decided to sell off the hands of the license.



This band can cover over 300 million U.S. population, including Lower 700 MHz D and E block covering 12 MHz frequency bands, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan area of 7,000 people, while the Lower 700 MHz D Area 6 MHz frequency blocks are covered by other parts of the United States, 2.3 billion people.



AT & T said it would set road use with (carrier aggregation) to deploy this technology as an additional down link frequency band used. This technology is expected to wait for the tenth edition of the standard is completed 3GPP can be ready, can provide significant capacity increases. Once the new standard is compatible with this phone come out and network equipment, AT & T will begin deployment of this band.
In addition, Qualcomm said mobile multimedia content in response to the increasing consumer demand, also plans to combine technologies into the channel chip set the blueprint in order to achieve higher downstream link capacity.



This transaction will be examined and approved by the relevant agencies to begin, AT & T and Qualcomm hopes to complete the second half of next year