Big news from the USA. Network operator AT&T has agreed to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a deal that's worth around $39 billion. In addition, Deutsche Telekom will end up owning around 8% of AT&T.
The joint venture will be the country's largest mobile network, approaching 130 million customers.
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New figures from Berg Insight indicate that the number of mobile network connections used for wireless machine-to-machine communication reached 81.4 million at the end of 2010.
That’s a 46% increase on the previous year.
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AT&T's three-year exclusive hold on the Apple iPhone in the United States will end next month.
Verizon Wireless is to stock the iPhone 4 from 10th February, with existing customers able to pre-order from 3rd February.
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Over in the United States, AT&T has agreed to purchase spectrum licenses in the ‘lower 700 MHz’ frequency band from Qualcomm for $1.925 billion. The spectrum, currently used by Qualcomm for its FLO TV service in the USA, will form part of AT&T’s 4G mobile broadband service.
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