AT&T touts network improvements under hail of criticism2010-09-10 09:31 by DanielaTags: AT&T, network, Wireless
AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) touted the enhancements it made to its networks in the first half of 2010, noting it has poured more than $8.2 billion into its wired and wireless networks. The company also sent out a letter to customers boasting of its network quality and its plans to continue improving it, though that was met with a flood of negative comments on the company's Facebook page. The nation's second largest carrier - which plans to spend between $18 billion and $19 billion on capital expenditures in 2010 - said that in the first half of the year it added 600 new cell sites, upgraded 925 cell sites to 3G services and deployed more than 6,500 additional radio carriers and 32 Distributed Antenna Systems. AT&T plans to begin deploying LTE in 2011, and in the meantime is readying a nationwide HSPA+ upgrade for this year, which AT&T executives have said will be able to deliver real-world download speeds of 7 Mbps. In the meantime, the carrier continues to upgrade backhaul to cell sites it has upgraded to HSPA 7.2 technology. Read more -here-
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