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Cingular Wireless Opens New Stores in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Mount Dora, St. Petersburg, and Winter Haven

    ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the busy
holiday season, Cingular Wireless has opened five new company-owned retail
stores in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, St. Petersburg, Winter Haven, and Mount
Dora, for a total of 129 company-owned stores statewide.
    The new store locations include:
     - 250 S.E. 1st Street, Downtown Miami
     - The Galleria Mall, Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale
     - The Royal Palms on 4th Shopping Center, 5012 4th Street N., St.
       Petersburg
     - The Shoppes of Citrus Terrace, U.S. Highway 441, Mount Dora
     - The Centre Plaza, 1107 3rd Street S.W., Winter Haven
    As the nation's largest wireless carrier, Cingular Wireless is
committed to providing a customer and network experience second-to-none in
the industry. With the recent opening of these new locations, Cingular now
has 43 company- owned retail stores throughout South Florida from Key West
to Vero Beach and 86 in West, Central and North Florida, making its
advanced products and services easily accessible to customers.
    Cingular recently completed the rollout of its high-speed 3G mobile
broadband network throughout the metropolitan areas of Miami, Fort
Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Daytona Beach,
Melbourne, Cape Canaveral, Lakeland, Tallahassee, and Gainesville,
providing customers with average download data speeds between 400-700
kilobits per second with bursts to over one megabit per second.
    The company's 3G network offers advanced wireless services, such as
viewing video clips, and enhances existing wireless services by making them
run faster. Customers can now download a game or ring tone, or access
e-mail, in a fraction of the time it used to take. Additionally, Cingular
customers using a 3G handset can access all the company's data services
whenever they're connected to the Cingular network.
    About Cingular Wireless
    Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States,
serving 58.7 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture of AT&T Inc.
(NYSE: T) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE: BLS), has the largest digital
voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(TM) network -- and the
largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier.
Cingular is a leader in third generation wireless technology. Its 3G
network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA
(High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Cingular is the only U.S.
wireless carrier to offer Rollover(r), the wireless plan that lets
customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are
available at http://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases
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SOURCE Cingular Wireless




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    Kelly Layne Starling of Cingular Wireless,
    +1-561-775-4259, or kelly.starling@cingular.com