Additional Spectrum and Continued Network Investments Provide Best-Ever
Service Quality
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless, now the new AT&T,
today said its New York-area customers are enjoying the best wireless
experience ever as the company begins using newly acquired spectrum to
increase network capacity.
Earlier this month, as part of an agreement to dissolve a joint network
venture with T-Mobile in metropolitan New York, AT&T's wireless unit
received an additional 10MHz of spectrum. The added spectrum improves call
quality for the company's GSM customers, and enables the company to further
expand its high-speed 3G services in one of the largest cities in the
country.
"Gaining additional spectrum for a wireless network is like adding
extra lanes to a major highway to ensure minimal congestion," said Tom
DeVito, vice president and general manager for AT&T's wireless operations
in New York/New Jersey. "We now have expanded the number of lanes on our
network to handle more calls with better quality as we provide customers
with the very best wireless service."
DeVito said recent independent drive tests show that no carrier has
fewer dropped calls in the New York area. The results were based on tests
conducted recently by a leading research company that provides information,
insight and performance measurements for the wireless industry. These drive
tests measure which carrier has the fewest dropped and incomplete calls in
a market.
DeVito added, "Our customers deserve the best wireless experience
possible. We will continue to make network investments and offer compelling
pricing, exclusive products and the most advanced data services in the
industry."
AT&T also offers its 3G mobile wireless broadband service in the New
York metropolitan area, including the city's major airports, and in
portions of Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey. With data speeds of
400-700 kilobits per second, AT&T's wireless customers can rapidly access
e-mail, browse the Internet, connect to business applications, or watch
news or weather video clips while on-the-go from Yankee Stadium to Battery
Park, or when they are waiting for a flight at Kennedy, LaGuardia or Newark
airports. AT&T provides 3G services in more than 160 markets and will
continue to add coverage to meet market service demand.
Over the past two years, the company has invested over $1 billion in
the area and turned on-air more than 575 new cell sites. Nationally, the
company has spent more than $12 billion on its network.
As part of its commitment to offer the best wireless experience, AT&T
offers an online mapping tool at http://www.cingular.com/coverageviewer. Also
available at all company retail locations or by calling 1-866-CINGULAR, the
tool provides customers with up-to-date wireless coverage information. It's
also designed to answer a customer's specific wireless coverage questions
based on an address, street intersection, zip code or even a landmark by
enabling a customer to view their wireless coverage down to the street
level while depicting the likelihood of coverage in various scenarios --
such as inside a building.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company in the United
States and around the world, with operating subsidiaries providing services
under the AT&T brand. AT&T is the recognized world leader in providing
IP-based communications services to business and the U.S. leader in
providing wireless, high speed Internet access, local and long distance
voice, and directory publishing and advertising services. As part of its
"three screen" integration strategy, AT&T is expanding video entertainment
offerings to include such next-generation television services as AT&T
U-verseSM TV. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and
services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at
http://www.att.com.
In metropolitan New York and Northern New Jersey, Cingular, now the new
AT&T, covers more than 18 million people extending across more than 6,500
square miles including New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam
and Rockland counties. In New Jersey, the company serves customers across
Warren County and as far south as Monmouth and Ocean counties.
AT&T is a registered trademark of AT&T Knowledge Ventures. Subsidiaries
and affiliates of AT&T Inc. provide products and services under the AT&T
brand. For more information, please review this announcement in the AT&T
newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom.
SOURCE Cingular Wireless
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Related links:
http://www.cingular.com
http://www.cingular.com/coverageviewer
http://www.att.com/newsroom http://www.att.com
CONTACT:
Ellen Webner, AT&T, +1-973-637-9357 (office),
or +1-201-532- 7292 (wireless), or Ellen.webner@cingular.com
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