AT&T needs T-Mobile to fix network issues

It is no hidden secret that AT&T competitors like Sprint are obviously not happy with the AT&T and T-Mobile merger. Sprint has a number of logical reasons to oppose this coalition which will see the combined user base closing in on 130 million, but AT&T can still tell you why it requires T-Mobile this desperately. As per AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega, his company’s wireless network will face major problems in short term if it can’t begin to integrate T-Mobile’s network into its own. He openly confessed that the requirement of an additional spectrum was one of the driving forces for this merger. This merger resolves the pending spectrum challenges that AT&T faces in major cities. de la Vega didn’t clearly explain what were the spectrum requirements implied, but he did reveal that his company will make use of T-Mobile’s 1700MHz AWS spectrum for LTE bands.

Via: Phonescoop