REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. entered a definitive agreement to exchange wireless licenses in six states.
The cash-free deal calls for AT&T Wireless to give up licenses in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Kentucky in exchange for Cingular’s operations on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and licenses in Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma and Mississippi.
Cingular’s Kauai network, which is the carrier’s only holdings in Hawaii, and its customers will be transitioned to AT&T Wireless after the deal closes in the second quarter of next year.
