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Cingular Entering Utah Markets in $140-Mil Deal

ATLANTA-The nation's second largest wireless carrier is expanding its coverage area to Salt Lake City and Provo. The locally based firm is buying 15MHz of spectrum (wavelength) in each market from Leap Wireless International Inc. of San Diego in a deal valued at $140 million.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on August 01, 2001

ATLANTA-Locally based Cingular Wirelesss is expanding its coverage area to Utah in Salt Lake City and Provo. The company is buying 15MHz of spectrum (wavelength) in each market from Leap Wireless International Inc. of San Diego in a deal valued at $140 million.

The deal still has to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission. Cingular didn’t indicate in a prepared statement what size offices it might be leasing in the two cities to service the customer base.

Entering the two Utah cities adds two million potential customers to Cingular’s service base. Salt Lake City is the 34th largest metropolitan area in the United States with a population of 1.6 million. Cingular will operate an all-digital GSM network in these markets that will support next-generation wireless data services, according to the company’s statement. GSM also powers Cingular networks in California, Nevada, Washington, North and South Carolina, coastal Georgia and eastern Tennessee.

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