Fibre was top of mind for Verizon, T-Mobile US and AT&T executives during last week’s earnings calls but only one has a clear ...

Overall, the main pricing difference of AT&T vs. Spectrum Internet is that AT&T does not raise prices after the first year, whereas Spectrum usually increases its rates after 12 months.

AT&T’s AST boost came on the heels of rival T-Mobile US last year signing a much-hyped deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide satellite connectivity using some of T-Mobile US’ 2.5 GHz spectrum.

That didn’t happen; Verizon won only 12 of the 7,872 licenses auctioned, and AT&T didn’t bid. T-Mobile picked up 7,156, with the remaining licenses primarily won by small rural carriers.

U.S. spectrum policy is complicated by earlier decisions to allocate large bands of valuable spectrum to unlicensed use, for connectivity uses such as Wi-Fi. Other countries have allocated spectrum ...