The merged company expects to make substantial additional investment in broadband services. The
merged company will offer retail broadband Internet access service to 100 percent of its broadband
eligible access lines within three years of the Transaction Closing Date.

· To meet this commitment the merged company will make available retail broadband
Internet access service with a download speed of 768 kbps to 90 percent of its broadband
eligible access lines using wireline technologies within three years of the Transaction
Closing Date. The merged company will make available retail broadband Internet access
service in accordance with the FCC’s current definition of broadband to the remaining
broadband eligible access lines using alternative technologies and operating
arrangements, including but not limited to satellite and terrestrial wireless broadband
technologies.

· In addition, the merged company will make available retail broadband Internet access
service with a download speed of (1) 1.5 Mbps to 87% of the broadband eligible access
lines within two years of the Transaction Closing Date and (2) 3 Mbps to 75% of
broadband eligible access lines within one year of the Transaction Closing Date, 78% of
broadband eligible lines within two years of the Transaction Closing Date, and 80% of
broadband eligible lines within three years of the Transaction Closing Date.

· Broadband eligible access lines are defined as retail single-line residential and single-line
business access lines.

CenturyTel deal broker and lead lawyer Sam Feder was, until recently, the FCC's General Counsel.

said by iansltx :

For all its failings, AT&T didn't come out with U-Verse until after the SBC merger.

technical media spent yesterday discussing the iPhone app store's first soft porn application.

It appears Apple has not banned "Hottest Girls" application. The app developer claims in a note on his site that the application is "sold out" due to a strain on the servers. "Hottest Girls" loads the images it displays from the developer's servers and the "popularity of this app" could crash them, he says.

The developer claims he asked Apple to temporarily suspend the sales of this app until the problem is solved. Those who already purchased the application will still be able to use it, the message to his site says.

The merged company will offer retail broadband Internet access service to 100 percent of its broadband
eligible access lines within three years of the Transaction Closing Date.

To meet this commitment the merged company will make available retail broadband Internet access service with a download speed of 768 kbps to 90 percent of its broadband eligible access lines using wireline technologies within three years of the Transaction Closing Date.

said by Karl Bode :

Serving rural America isn't in the plans for anything but the tiniest of carriers who don't need to placate investors.