Service Provider briefs

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• Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless are beefing up wireless coverage through a recently announced spectrum swap. Cingular is picking up licenses in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas. AT&T Wireless is picking up licenses in Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma and Mississippi. AT&T Wireless also is taking over Cingular's operations, including its customers and network, in Kauai, Hawaii. The deal does not involve cash, only the exchange of assets in an effort to expand wireless network coverage.
• DSL provider Southwestern Broadband Holdings, formerly known as IP Communications, revealed last week that its creditors are forcing it into Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Unlike Chapter 11 bankruptcy, in which companies usually reorganize and emerge to do business again, those filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy usually are dismantled and sold to pay creditors. Southwestern Broadband serves about 7,000 residential and business customers in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Company officials say they will shut down service in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma by Feb. 10 and in Texas by Feb. 17.

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