AT&T + Sling Media collaborate on 3G-enabled SlingPlayer Mobile app

AT&T has announced that its 3G mobile broadband network will support Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile app. Sling Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, originally developed its wireless app to make efficient use of 3G network bandwidth – and to conserve the finite wireless spectrum available to the wireless industry. Since mid December 2009, AT&T has been testing the app and has recently notified Sling Media — as well as Apple – that the optimized app can run on its 3G network.

The SlingPlayer Mobile app already is available for use today on AT&T’s Wi-Fi network, the nation’s largest with more than 20,000 hotspots.