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Launching AT&T’s newest fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) network development for a multi-dwelling community in the region, The Broadway – San Antonio, the city’s most anticipated high-rise residential address, along with AT&T, today announced the signing of an AT&T Connected CommunitiesSM agreement. This agreement will bring cutting-edge, fiber-based AT&T U-verseSM TV, U-verse High Speed Internet and U-verse Voice services to The Broadway – San Antonio homeowners.

The agreement with The Broadway – San Antonio is part of the AT&T Connected Communities program, a strategic marketing initiative between AT&T and regional or national single-family builders, developers, real estate investment trusts, apartment ownership and management groups, and home owners’ associations to provide next-generation communications and entertainment solutions to residents.

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Soccer United Marketing, on behalf of Major League Soccer, L.L.C. (MLS), the U.S. Soccer Federation and AT&T announced today that AT&T will be the official communications services sponsor of MLS and the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams. As part of the multi-year agreement, AT&T is the title sponsor of the AT&T MLS All-Star Game, and in the future will enhance the soccer experience for fans by delivering exclusive content across the wireless device, TV, and PC.

“We’re pleased to associate our brand with this world-class game that’s arguably the most popular sport around the globe,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “We look forward to working closely with Major League Soccer and the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams to better connect soccer fans around the world to the excitement of the game through our leading edge technology and platforms — AT&T mobility, broadband, voice and video services.”

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Sprint Nextel Corporation and Virgin Mobile USA, announced today that their boards of directors have approved a definitive agreement for Sprint to acquire Virgin Mobile USA for a total equity value of approximately $483 million, which includes the value of Sprint’s current 13.1% fully diluted ownership interest in Virgin Mobile USA. In addition, at closing Sprint will retire all of Virgin Mobile USA’s outstanding debt, which is $248 million net of cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2009, but is expected to be no more than $205 million net of cash and cash equivalents on Sept. 30, 2009.

This acquisition will strengthen Sprint’s position in the growing prepaid segment by bringing together under one umbrella the iconic Virgin Mobile brand with Sprint’s successful Boost Mobile business. These complementary prepaid brands, each with a distinctive offer, style and appeal to different customer demographics, will continue to serve existing and prospective customers following the completion of the transaction.

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Alcatel-Lucent announced today that it has acquired Velocix, a leading global provider of Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure and services to Internet and broadband service providers and media and entertainment companies.

CDNs optimize digital distribution over the Internet by replicating popular video and rich media content to geographically dispersed networks of delivery servers. This allows user requests for content to be served more rapidly and reliably from these local delivery servers rather than from a single source.

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Social butterflies have a new way to be in multiple places at one time. AT&T today announced the availability of AT&T Social Net, a free mobile social networking application that combines access to Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter and customizable news feeds within a single application.

“Five of the top 10 searches on our mobile Web portal are for social networking sites, a clear indication of the growing popularity of mobile social networking,” said Mark Collins, vice president of voice and data products, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “With this app, we’re satisfying the increasing demand for aggregation apps that make it easy for customers to be active in multiple communities simultaneously.”

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