AT&T is about to have more and faster 5G | Infinium-tech
AT&T has now announced that it has finalized the acquisition of spectrum licenses from EchoStar worth $23 billion. The transaction was announced in August last year.
AT&T paid all that money for an average of about 50 MHz of low-band and mid-band spectrum, covering “almost every market across the US”, more than 400 in total. It has 30MHz of 3.45GHz mid-band spectrum as well as 20MHz of 600GHz low-band spectrum.
The official press release says the move will significantly increase AT&T’s 5G capacity and download speeds, while also helping the company “deliver AI-ready connected experiences as it engineers spectrum to leverage the superior uplink capabilities of its wireless networks.”
As a result of this transaction, AT&T expects to “accelerate and expand” the availability of its Internet Air service, which provides home Internet service through the company’s wireless network. Thus, it can move more customers away from older copper-based phone and Internet services, both in areas where it eventually plans to deploy AT&T Fiber and where it does not.
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