AT&T To Buy Rural Carrier’s Wireless Business

Long Lines, a multi-play service provider based in rural Iowa, announced that it has agreed to sell its wireless business to AT&T Mobility.

In an interview, Long Line’s CEO Brent Olson said the company’s network supports GSM/ EDGE technology in the PCS band. The sale also includes some AWS spectrum that Long Lines had not yet built out, Olson said. Neither the sale price nor the number of subscribers was revealed. It isn’t surprising that Long Lines made the decision to sell its wireless business. In an announcement about the sale Olson noted that “regional wireless providers have limited access to the latest smartphones and other devices, and it has become increasingly difficult for Long Lines Wireless to meet the digital mobile needs of our customers.”