AT&T on Wednesday announced a plan to cover 96% of the U.S. population with 4G-LTE service by the end of 2014. That's great news for customers -- but it reveals that AT&T told regulators a pretty big whopper last year while fighting for its doomed T-Mobile merger.
One of the deal's fiercest battle points was 4G access outside major cities. Without T-Mobile, AT&T (T, Fortune 500)said it was "very unlikely" that it would expand 4G-LTE service beyond the 80% coverage threshold it already planned to reach by 2013. http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/07/technology/mobile/att-4g/index.html