AT&T cancels plans to buy T-Mobile

	Year-End Surprise: AT&T Abandons T-Mobile Deal | The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now
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	AT&T cancels plans to buy T-Mobile AT&T today ended its battle to buy T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. carrier from parent company Deutsche Telekom. In doing so, it will pay T-Mobile a $4 billion breakup fee. Earlier this fall, both the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice said they would fight the sale, with the FCC saying it was not in consumers' interest. Had the deal gone through, AT&T would have become the No. 1 U.S. cellular carrier, leaping ahead of Verizon Wireless, which it trails slightly in terms of customers. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath 6 Best Practices to Ensure a Thorough Evaluation Identify 6 key situations that demonstrate when it's time to consider managed network services, plus 6 best practices to ensure your evaluation of managed network service providers is thorough enough to support your decision. View Now In this Issue Year-End Surprise: AT&T Abandons T-Mobile Deal The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now Critics stage last-ditch effort to derail domain name expansion plan Cox to sell spectrum to Verizon for $315M New Clearwire funding won't guarantee LTE plan Comcast expands IPv6 services into four more states AT&T, Verizon LTE nets offer similar data download, Web browsing speeds WEBCAST: Aerohive Delivering Enterprise Applications Anywhere to Any Device Unprecedented adoption of wireless mobile devices, in the enterprise impacts every IT department as they must now deal with technologies that enable access to enterprise applications anywhere, anytime, from any device whether they be corporate issued or personally owned. Read now. Year-End Surprise: AT&T Abandons T-Mobile Deal I really thought the acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T would go through, but it really is dead. Now, from a competitive perspective, this (as I said earlier) likely wouldn't have been great for the market - fewer competitors inevitably mean less consumer choice, less innovation, and higher prices. Read More The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now A year ago I wrote that 2011 would be a year in which the Internet would "be under a multi-pronged attack that threatens to change it irrevocably in ways that may destroy much of the Internet's potential." Well, 2011 has come and mostly gone, and it turned out that my pessimism may have been misplaced but not invalid. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Running SAP NetWeaver on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud This document outlines the value of using SAP on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and discusses architectural and practical considerations when deploying SAP on Exalogic and Exadata. Learn More! Critics stage last-ditch effort to derail domain name expansion plan Debate around a controversial plan to add hundreds of new domain name extensions to the Internet infrastructure has reached a fever pitch in the nation's capital, as critics engage in a last-ditch effort to scrap or delay the plan, which is scheduled to launch Jan. 12. Read More Cox to sell spectrum to Verizon for $315M Cox Communications plans to sell wireless spectrum licenses covering 28 million U.S. residents to Verizon Wireless for US$315 million, becoming the latest cable operator to join with Verizon for mobile services. Read More WEBCAST: IBM IBM InfoSphere MDM Solutions for Insurance Master data management helps make insurers smarter. MDM enables them to connect disparate pieces of customer information across policy systems, departments, and channels, into a single, actionable view that is customer-centric rather than policy-centric. View Now New Clearwire funding won't guarantee LTE plan Clearwire's big payday on Tuesday, when it raised US$734 million through a stock offering and a new investment by majority owner Sprint Nextel, helped the WiMax carrier but didn't seal the deal on its planned LTE network. Read More Comcast expands IPv6 services into four more states Comcast continues to extend its leadership role in the adoption of next-generation Internet services with the news that it has expanded its production IPv6 deployment into four more states — Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey — over the past six weeks. Read More AT&T, Verizon LTE nets offer similar data download, Web browsing speeds Data downloads and Web browsing on new LTE-ready smartphones were slightly faster on AT&T's new 4G LTE network than on the far more widely spread 4G LTE network of rival Verizon Read More
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