AT&T Expands Wireless Network for Rochester Customers

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is supporting its continued commitment to Rochester area customers with the largest wireless network investment in the region since 2005. The company's planned $80 million investment in the upstate/western New York area this year will bring the planned four-year territory investment total to more than $250 million.

AT&T has delivered dramatic change to the network experience for customers in the Rochester area -- a direct result of the company's ongoing efforts to expand and enhance its network operations and the synergies that come from being part of the world's largest communications company.

Part of the 2008 investment plan calls for more than 50 new cell sites in upstate. The company has already turned on new sites this year in Bethany, Leroy and Webster.

AT&T plans to more than double the size of its high speed mobile broadband footprint in Monroe County. Later this summer, the broadband footprint will be extended east into Wayne County, southeast into Ontario County, southwest into Livingston County (including SUNY Geneseo), and northwest to cover the rest of Monroe County, including SUNY Brockport. Locally, AT&T's high speed 3G network currently brings mobile broadband capability to customers in Brighton, East Rochester, Fairport, Greece, Gates Center, North Gates, Pittsford and Webster.

"AT&T's network in Rochester is better than ever. We aren't the same AT&T that you might have known years ago. Our planned network investment this year underscores our dedication to consumers and businesses in upstate New York," said Jay Summerson, vice president, External Affairs for AT&T in New York.

"We have not only enhanced voice quality and boosted our in-building coverage -- but we've also enabled our customers to work faster without wires -- and enjoy more robust speeds on their laptops and mobile phones," added Bob Holliday, vice president and general manager for AT&T's wireless operations in upstate New York.

The enhanced wireless network speed lets customers download a 5 MB file in 25 seconds, a three minute song (about 3MB) in 15 seconds and a ringtone that might take one minute and 45 seconds over slower mobile technologies -- only takes an average of 25 seconds on AT&T's 3G network. Equally as important as the network, which is now available in more than 280 U.S. major metropolitan areas, is the device through which a customer experiences it. AT&T's handset portfolio in company-owned stores is more than 75 percent 3G-capable. By year-end, the company plans to offer 3G service in nearly 350 major metropolitan U.S. areas.

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 and the nation's leading wireless, 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 its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings.

Source

AT&T