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AT&TS INVESTMENT IN THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA AREA PAYS OFF IN IMPROVED VOICE AND DATA PERFORMANCE
Company Activates New Cell Sites, Boosts Capacity and Adds Equipment to Enhance Networks, Keeping More Than 99 percent of all Philadelphia area Wireless Calls Connected [PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 9, 2012] AT&T* continues to drive investment and innovation to improve voice and data performance on our network. Those investments are paying off in strong service performance, including keeping more than 99 percent of all Philadelphia-area wireless calls connected. AT&T has invested more than $350 million from 2009 through 2011 in its Philadelphia area wireline and wireless networks as part of our drive to deliver the nations best mobile Internet experience: Weve made 1,825 network upgrades since January 1, 2011, including: o Activating 34 new cell sites or towers to help improve network coverage. o Deploying faster fiber-optic connections to nearly 870 cell sites. Combined with HSPA+ technology, these deployments enable 4G speeds. ** o Adding capacity or an extra layer of frequency to cell sites like adding lanes to a highway with the addition of nearly 925 layers, or carriers. CNN Money recently recognized AT&T for enhancing its wireless network. Last year, AT&T completed 150,000 network enhancements across the country, more than triple the year before, giving customers more capacity and faster speeds, as well as improving call retention. In the greater Philadelphia-area we have worked hard to keep more than 99 percent of calls on the AT&T network connectedand were not stopping there, said Tiffany Baehman, vice president general manager, AT&T greater Philadelphia region. We are always striving to provide the most reliable network possible.

We constantly strive to meet consumer demands for faster, more reliable service, and over the past four years we have invested heavily to ensure the best experience for our customers, said J. Michael Schweder, president, AT&T Mid-Atlantic. While consumer demands are driving our need to invest, good policy decisions by our legislature have enabled us to make these investments in new technologies and upgraded service. AT&Ts National Network Investment Over the past five years, AT&T has invested more than $115 billion into our operations and into acquiring spectrum and other assets that have enhanced our wireless and wired networks. Mobile data traffic on our network grew more than 20,000 percent in the last five years, and it more than doubled in 2011 alone. The download speeds available on our 4G LTE network today are more than 50x faster than our 2G network five years ago. We ended 2011 with 80 percent of our mobile data traffic running on our advanced 4G network. AT&Ts Wi-Fi Capacity Connections on the AT&T Wi-Fi network continue to skyrocket as more and more consumers log-on from smartphones, tablets and other devices. AT&T customers can connect to the nations largest Wi-Fi network*** with nearly 30,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots and growing. AT&T continues to deploy free Wi-Fi hot spots to provide convenient connectivity for AT&T customers in high traffic areas. For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit http://att.com/phillynetwork.

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and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse and AT&T DIRECTV brands. The companys suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT. 2012 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. Mobile broadband not available in all areas. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. .All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.