AT&T To Get More Spectrum with Corr Wireless Buy

By Arselia Gales

**Editor’s Note: Please click here for a recap of the biggest channel-impacting mergers in Q1 2013 or here for the biggest M&A during that time in the service provider-BSS/OSS spaces.**

AT&T is set to acquire spectrum and subscribers belonging to Corr Wireless, a 2G operator owned by C Spire Wireless.

The Alabama-based company has 21,000 subscribers, according to TeleGeography. Terms of the deal have yet to be published.

According to a regulatory filing submitted to the FCC, the transaction includes one cellular license, five PCS concessions, customers, network equipment and other assets.

AT&T and other operators are busy gobbling up spectrum via mergers and acquisitions to they can further build out their modern networks and offer more high-speed services.