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AT&T To Pay $1.93 Billion For FLO TV Spectrum

Posted by Soulskill on from the saturate-this dept.

itwbennett writes "AT&T on Monday announced it is buying from Qualcomm $1.925 billion worth of wireless spectrum that it plans to use for a 4G network. The spectrum was bought by Qualcomm for $125 million and had powered FLO TV."

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  1. The end. by adolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And this, friends, represents the end of the glory that should have been the giant swaths of 700MHz spectrum which were liberated as part of the move from NTSC to ATSC.

    RIP, dreams.

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  2. Re:Two billion sounds about right by adolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bandwith is limited so you want to use low power close to the user.

    Your statement is absolutely true.

    But bandwidth is (by definition) limited in any band. It is better to use those bands which are actually good at traversing long distances to traverse long distances, than to use those same bands to traverse short distances when other bands could perform the same job more efficiently.

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