On the heels of EchoStar spectrum acquisition, AT&T gives strategy update

During the excellent Mobile Future Forward event in Seattle, Washington, RCR Wireless News sat down with AT&T SVP and Network CTO Yigal Elbaz to get a strategy update. Our chat came a little more than a week after AT&T announced it was spending $23 billion to acquire 50 megahertz of EchoStar’s low- and mid-band spectrum, so lots to talk about.

Bottom line, Elbaz said, “We’re playing to win and we’re going to make sure that we have all of the assets that we need in order for us to have long-term leadership when it comes to advanced networking.” He said the 30 megahertz of mid-band 3.45 GHz spectrum would be deployed “relatively quickly” via software upgrade to support the company’s 5G fixed wireless access (FWA)

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