WESTWOOD, Mass., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced
today that Cingular, now AT&T and the nation's largest wireless carrier,
has turned on a new cell site in Newton, Massachusetts.
The new site brings enhanced coverage to the company's wireless
customers along Route 9 and Hammond Pond Parkway as well as to the area
around Chestnut Hill Malls, supporting increased customer traffic in the
area.
In addition to this new cell site, AT&T added more than 95 cell sites
in New England last year. At the end of 2006, the company's two-year
network investment in the New England region surpassed half a billion
dollars. The company also recently completed the integration of its legacy
Cingular and AT&T Wireless cell sites to establish a single, enhanced
network.
"With the addition of new cell sites and the completion of the
integration of the two networks, the wireless experience for our customers
in Massachusetts has improved dramatically, equal to what other wireless
carriers complete over several years," said Steve Krom, vice president and
general manager of AT&T's wireless operations in New England. "In fact, we
have increased the number of cell sites for our customers in the state by
nearly 80 percent in the last two years."
This local investment is part of AT&T's estimated $6 billion national
network capital expenditure program during 2006. Over the last two years,
AT&T has spent more than $13.5 billion nationally in an aggressive program
to upgrade and expand wireless service and now gives customers access to
some 45,000 cell sites.
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SOURCE Cingular Wireless, now part of the new AT&T
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CONTACT:
Kate MacKinnon of Cingular Wireless,
+1-781-690-5057, or kate.mackinnon@cingular.com
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