ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. said it is expanding its Wireless Broadband Service to Albany, Ga., and Paducah, Ky., this month. The service runs over a pre-WiMAX network.
The company said it also is expanding the service, which offers residential and business customers high-speed Internet access, in New Orleans to include New Orleans East. The service works on the company’s licensed 2.3 GHz spectrum.
BellSouth said it now offers service in 10 southeastern markets, including four markets launched last month in South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The launches are notable as members of Congress are calling for BellSouth and AT&T Inc. to divest their 2.5 MHz and 2.5 MHz spectrum holdings as part of their planned merger. The carriers have argued that they should not be required to divest the spectrum.
