SANTA ROSA, Calif.,
May 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At
AT&T1, we've invested nearly $80 million in our Santa Rosa and Petaluma wireless and wired networks during
2014-2016. These investments enhance reliability, coverage, speed
and overall performance for residents and businesses. They also
improve critical services that support public safety and first
responders.
AT&T completed 1,459 LTE capacity upgrades, 45 LTE overlays,
and 23 new cell sites throughout Northern
California in 2016, boosting network capacity and new
wireless high-speed internet connections. The AT&T LTE network
covers more than 400 million people in North America.
"We know that Californians demand a world-class communications
network, and we're committed to maintaining and growing our wired
and wireless networks to provide our customers with the fast,
reliable, highly secure connectivity they expect, in every corner
of the state," said Ken McNeely, president of AT&T
California. "We're proud that our continued investment
across California is driving innovation and opening up
new possibilities for consumers and entrepreneurs."
"We know that having a robust communications network helps our
manufacturing, green technology, agriculture and tourism sectors
thrive," said Ben Stone, Executive
Director of the Sonoma County Economic Development Board.
"AT&T's continued investment in our community, especially
launching fiber internet right here in Santa Rosa, is really helping our small
businesses grow."
The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) recently chose
AT&T to build a nationwide public safety broadband network. The
network will be dedicated to America's police, firefighters and EMS
personnel. Should California opt-in to the FirstNet network,
we will build upon our current and planned investments with a
dedicated focus on the state's first responders.
And we would expect to make a significant investment to upgrade
and maintain California's FirstNet
network over the next 25 years, bringing your first responders the
coverage, value and experience they expect.
For the third year in a row, FORTUNE magazine recognized
AT&T as the Most Admired Telecommunications Company in the
world in 2017. We also placed No. 37 among the Top 50 World's
Most Admired companies.
AT&T is the only communications company on the list. We
ranked No. 1 in all 9 attributes. This included innovation,
financial soundness and quality of products/services.
We have the largest fiber network within our 21-state wireline
footprint.2 We also now market a 1 gigabit
connection3 on our 100% fiber network to 4.6 million
locations across 52 major metro areas. We plan to reach at least 75
major metros overall. We expect to add 2 million locations in 2017,
and we plan to reach at least 12.5 million locations by
mid-2019.
We have an extensive Wi-Fi network with more than 40,000
AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots at popular restaurants, hotels, bookstores
and retailers. And we provide access to Wi-Fi at more 1 million
locations around the world. Most AT&T smartphone customers and
home internet customers get access to our national Wi-Fi
network4 at no added cost. Wi-Fi usage doesn't count
towards customers' monthly wireless data plans.
To learn more about our coverage in Santa Rosa, Petaluma or anywhere in the U.S., visit the
AT&T Coverage Viewer. For updates on the AT&T wireless
network, please visit the AT&T network news page.
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1 AT&T products and services are provided or
offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the
AT&T brand and not by AT&T
Inc.
2 Based on publicly available
data for the top fiber providers in the AT&T operating
footprint.
3 Actual customer speeds may
vary. Download speeds are typically up to 940Mbps due to overhead
capacity reserved to deliver the data.
4
Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See
www.attwifi.com for details and locations.
About AT&T
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with leading entertainment, business, mobile and high speed
internet services. We offer the nation's best data network* and the
best global coverage of any U.S. wireless provider.** We're one of
the world's largest providers of pay TV. We have TV customers in
the U.S. and 11 Latin American countries. Nearly 3.5 million
companies, from small to large businesses around the globe, turn to
AT&T for our highly secure smart solutions.
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