AT&T’s already promising to deploy gigabit service to 11.7 million total households to sell regulators on the company’s $49 billion acquisition of DirecTV.
But in a new filing with the FCC, the telco also promises regulators that it will offer $5 and $10 broadband service if the deal gets approved. As with Comcast’s much-publicized Internet Essentials program, the services appear aimed primarily at low-income families.
“The Commission should promptly approve the transaction so that consumers can begin to enjoy the resulting pro-competitive, public interest benefits,” AT&T says in the filing. Reports have suggested that the FCC and DOJ are formally poised to approve the telco’s latest merger sometime this week.
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