We’ve always believed in Father Christmas; this year he’s five days early, said Merill Tutton, president of AT&T UK upon the granting of the company’s UK Public Telecommunications Operator’s licence: AT&T joins 60 or so other holders of various licences, and it now has all the same rights as Mercury Communications Ltd and can develop its service beyond the multinational businesses to the domestic market; although it will not divulge its plans until the New Year.
