SK Net Service Company Ltd：AT & T applied FCC for stopping the merger of WiMax

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According to foreign media reports, Tuesday, the largest U.S. wireless subscribers, AT & T appled to FCC (Federal Communications Commission), asked the Committee to reject the merger of SprintNextel and Clearwire.
According to foreign media reports, in May this year, Sprint announced that it would set up a joint venture with Clearwire, the integration of the two companies WiMax assets and the establishment of nationwide wireless broadband network, the transaction value of 14.5 billion U.S. dollars, and with the cable operators Comcast, Time Warner and Intel and Google support. FCC is currently reviewing the transaction, approval of the transaction to complete.
AT & T is submitted to the FCC this week in the paper pointed out, Sprint and Clearwire have publicly said they would with other national wireless service providers to compete, but submitted to the FCC to review the document and did not make the necessary statement.
In fact, AT & T's letter to the FCC and Clearwire SprintNextel questioned the merger, in addition to forming worried that this merger might bring to the market to unfair competition, also questioned the WiMAX cause of the merger of the follow-up to the actual use of wireless communications with the band Existing applications is not consistent with the band, may cause future wireless frequency use of resources on the chaos and disturbance.
However, the industry will be more than AT & T's move interpreted as deliberately disrupt SprintNextel and Clearewire the WiMAX cause of the merger, will be in the United States to establish a national wireless broadband network operation, which will be the first U.S. National Of mobile broadband wireless Internet services, such as AT & T currently only has 3 G or 3.5 G mobile communications service provider, the mobile broadband data services on the Internet is bound to bring new shocks. Therefore, in order to delay SprintNextel Clearwire's WiMAX business and the progress of the merger, AT & T then will pin their hopes in the FCC's merger review and approval process.
It is learnt that AT & T is deploying the 3 G technology in its network coverage areas and is busy with upgrading existing networks at present. And it will be many years for it to establish the next-generation technology (LTE) 4 G network. In contrast, WiMax technology currently has applying conditions and has been put into operation. No matter what is the outcome of the merger, Sprint is expected to deploy the first WiMax networks in September. The development of WiMax equipment has also been completed and will to on market at the end of the year.