AT&T Continues to Expand Nation's Fastest 3G Network in South Carolina
February 18, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC – February 18, 2009 – As people’s lives become increasingly mobile and fast-paced, AT&T is expanding its South Carolina network to help customers keep up with the speed of life. AT&T announced today it plans to add new cell sites throughout South Carolina in 2009, and launch its 3G service in Florence. The planned sites are part of AT&T’s ongoing expansion of its 3G network, the nation’s fastest 3G network, according to recent data compiled by leading independent wireless research firms.
From 2006 to 2008, AT&T’s total capital investment in South Carolina was nearly $875 million. As part of the its 2009 investment, AT&T plans to expand its 3G footprint in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville and Spartanburg and launch 3G service in Florence and Anderson, totaling more than 195 cell site activations.
South Carolina leaders have long cultivated a business climate that welcomes and encourages investments which in turn strengthen the infrastructure of our state, said Pamela Lackey, President, AT&T South Carolina. Continuing to invest in technologies such as our 3G wireless network helps keep consumers and businesses throughout the state in the forefront of the global economy and delivers the benefits of advanced communications.
Some of the counties that will benefit from the 2009 network build-out plan include:
— Greenville County
— Spartanburg County
— Anderson County
— York County
— Pickens County
— Lancaster County
— Laurens County
— Richland County
— Lexington County
— Sumter County
— Florence County
— Horry County
— Charleston County
— Berkeley County
— Dorchester County
AT&T’s 3G wireless network gives our customers the ability to stay connected to the information and content that is most important to them, said Alison Hall, vice president and general manager, (Carolinas) AT&T Mobility and Consumer Services. We are excited to launch 3G services and expand AT&T’s advanced technology to customers throughout South Carolina.
In addition to AT&T’s recent wireless network enhancements, customers have access to the wireless network with the best global coverage, as well as the nation’s premier lineup of innovative wireless and wireline products and services, including iPhone 3G, an AT&T exclusive. With the expansion of AT&T’s retail services in South Carolina, customers have a new way to shop and experience AT&T’s extensive portfolio of wireless, broadband, wireline and video products and services.
AT&T’s 3G network is now available in nearly 350 U.S. major metropolitan areas including these cities in the Carolinas: Columbia, S.C., Greenville, S.C., Charleston, S.C., Spartanburg, S.C., and Clemson, S.C., Myrtle Beach, S.C., Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh, N.C., Greensboro, N.C., Jacksonville, N.C. and Fayetteville, N.C.
The AT&T 3G wireless network delivers LaptopConnect users typical downlink speeds ranging between 700 kilobits per second (Kbps) and 1.7 megabits per second (Mbps), and faster uplink speeds ranging between 500 Kbps and 1.2 Mbps. The super-charged network opens the door to a new era of advanced mobile services, devices and feature-rich audio and video content, such as AT&T Video Share(SM), a first-of-its-kind technology that allows users to share live video during a wireless call.
AT&T’s wireless network is built on the GSM standard — the most open and widely used technology in the world. AT&T’s wireless devices work in more than 200 countries and regions.
For more information about AT&T’s coverage in South Carolina or anywhere in the United States, consumers can go to http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/. The online tool can measure the quality of coverage based on a street address, intersection, ZIP code or even a landmark.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world’s most advanced IP-based business communications services, the nation’s fastest 3G network and the best wireless coverage worldwide, and the nation’s leading high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of their three-screen integration strategy, AT&T operating companies are expanding their TV entertainment offerings. In 2008, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE(R) magazine’s lists of the World’s Most Admired Companies and America’s Most Admired Companies.
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