{"id":957772,"date":"2025-08-27T07:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957772"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:08:28","slug":"att-to-buy-spectrum-licenses-from-echostar-for-about-23-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/27\/att-to-buy-spectrum-licenses-from-echostar-for-about-23-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar for about $23 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. telecom giant AT&amp;T said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy certain wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for about $23 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of satellite communications firm EchoStar jumped more than 40% in premarket trading, while AT&amp;T rose 1.5%. <\/p>\n<p>The deal advances AT&amp;T&#8217;s investment plans to accelerate its fiber and 5G network build-out as the wireless market saturates and internet usage surges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. telecom giant AT&amp;T said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy certain wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for about $23 billion. Shares of satellite communications firm EchoStar jumped more than 40% in premarket trading, while AT&amp;T rose 1.5%. The deal advances AT&amp;T&#8217;s investment plans to accelerate its fiber and 5G network build-out as the wireless market saturates and internet usage surges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}