AT&T makes over USD1.8bn investment in North Carolina from 2008 to 2011





Feb 16, 2012 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) –
US wireless communications company ATT (NYSE:T) announced on Wednesday an investment of over USD1.8bn in its North Carolina wireless and wireline networks from 2008 through 2011.

During 2011, ATT made nearly 2,500 wireless network upgrades in four key categories in North Carolina. These enhancements include the activation of over 60 new cell sites or towers to improve network coverage and deploying faster fibre-optic connections to over more than 900 cell sites. Combined with HSPA+ technology, these deployments enable 4G speeds, the company said.

The enhancements also include adding capacity or an extra layer of frequency to cell sites with the addition of over 1,050 of these layers, or ‘carriers’ and upgrading nearly 475 cell sites to provide fast mobile broadband speeds.

ATT also launched its new 4G LTE network in Charlotte in 2011 and in Raleigh and Chapel Hill January 2012.



In addition, ATT plans to support the build or upgrade of thousands of cell sites nationwide to increase network speed, coverage and reliability for both mobile voice and broadband services. ATT plans to install additional radio ‘carriers’ at thousands of cell sites nationally, enabling new layers of spectrum capacity to carry larger volumes of mobile broadband traffic. Additional capacity helps support rising mobile data traffic volumes, which continue to increase at a rapid pace, ATT said.

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