While everyone seems to be rushing to get on the cloud, AT&T is downsizing its data centre operations.
The telco is apparently selling some of its data centres worth about $2 billion as it continues its streak of asset sales.
Apparently, AT&T is keen to get its debt loads down and pay off its credit card bill from last Christmas. It is all a rumour of course, and the story is based on leaks to The Wall Street Journal
Part of AT&T’s debt problems came because it had to bid high prices for spectrum. The company said it had spent close to half of the total bids in the record-setting $44.9 billion spectrum sale that concluded last week.
AT&T bagged 251 licences in the AWS-3 spectrum auction worth $18.2 billion. The company has also been investing to expand its footprint in Mexico to grow its business, as the US wireless market reaches saturation. It said last month it would buy bankrupt NII Holdings wireless business in Mexico for $1.875 billion.
