AT&T Didn't Want To Expand Rural Coverage Because Of $3.8 Billion Price Tag

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A leaked legal filing reveals that AT&T was happy to have its 4G network cover 80% of Americans, but didn't want to spend the $3.8 billion needed to expand it to the rest of the country.
Instead, it decided to spend almost ten times that much to buy T-Mobile.
Wireless Week got a look at the letter from the FCC's Web site before it was taken down. Here's the relevant bit from an AT&T lawyer:
AT&T senior management concluded that, unless AT&T could find a way to expand its LTE footprint on a significantly more cost-effective basis, an LTE deployment to 80 percent of the U.S. population was the most that could be justified.

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