AT&T announced today that it completed its acquisition
of wireless spectrum in the lower 700 MHz band B block from Verizon Wireless.
The acquired licenses cover 42 million people in 18 states — California,
Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, New York,
Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and
Wyoming.
The spectrum will support AT&T’s deployment of 4G LTE to
meet surging demand for mobile Internet services. AT&T has the nation’s
fastest and now most reliable 4G LTE network, according to independent
third-party data.1 AT&T’s 4G LTE network currently covers more than 225
million people, with plans to reach nearly 270 million people by the end of
2013, and to substantially complete the build by summer 2014. AT&T’s plans
to deploy 4G LTE include the areas covered by this spectrum.