PITTSBURGH, May 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At
AT&T1, we invested nearly $120 million in our Pittsburgh 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.
In 2016, AT&T made nearly 320 wireless network upgrades in
the Pittsburgh area,
including adding new cell sites and boosting network
capacity.
"We're investing to provide faster, more reliable, highly secure
connectivity. We want our customers to have internet access at any
moment, from almost any device—anywhere," said J. Michael Schweder, president, AT&T Mid
Atlantic. "These continued investments bring residents and
businesses in the Pittsburgh area
a host of new opportunities."
The AT&T LTE network covers nearly 400 million people in
North America.
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, EMS
personnel and other first responders when they need it. Should
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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
telecommunications company on the list. We ranked No. 1 in all 9
attributes. This included innovation, financial soundness and
quality of products/services.
We have an extensive Wi-Fi network with more than 40,000
AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots at popular restaurants, hotels, bookstores
and retailers. And we provide access to Wi-Fi at more than 1
million locations around the world. Most AT&T smartphone and
home internet customers get access to the entire national AT&T
Wi-Fi Hot Spot network2 at no additional cost. Wi-Fi
usage doesn't count against customers' monthly wireless data
plans.
To learn more about our coverage in Pittsburgh 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.
1AT&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.
2Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other
restrictions apply. See www.attwifi.com for details
and locations
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About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) helps millions
around the globe connect 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
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includes data reported by wireless consumers in the Nielsen Mobile
Insights survey, network measurements from Nielsen Mobile
Performance and Nielsen Drive Test Benchmarks for Q3+Q4 2016 across
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