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ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for the busy holiday season, Cingular Wireless has opened five new company-owned retail stores in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, St. Petersburg, Winter Haven, and Mount Dora, for a total of 129 company-owned stores statewide. The new store locations include: - 250 S.E. 1st Street, Downtown Miami - The Galleria Mall, Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale - The Royal Palms on 4th Shopping Center, 5012 4th Street N., St. Petersburg - The Shoppes of Citrus Terrace, U.S. Highway 441, Mount Dora - The Centre Plaza, 1107 3rd Street S.W., Winter Haven As the nation's largest wireless carrier, Cingular Wireless is committed to providing a customer and network experience second-to-none in the industry. With the recent opening of these new locations, Cingular now has 43 company- owned retail stores throughout South Florida from Key West to Vero Beach and 86 in West, Central and North Florida, making its advanced products and services easily accessible to customers. Cingular recently completed the rollout of its high-speed 3G mobile broadband network throughout the metropolitan areas of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Cape Canaveral, Lakeland, Tallahassee, and Gainesville, providing customers with average download data speeds between 400-700 kilobits per second with bursts to over one megabit per second. The company's 3G network offers advanced wireless services, such as viewing video clips, and enhances existing wireless services by making them run faster. Customers can now download a game or ring tone, or access e-mail, in a fraction of the time it used to take. Additionally, Cingular customers using a 3G handset can access all the company's data services whenever they're connected to the Cingular network. About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 58.7 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(TM) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is a leader in third generation wireless technology. Its 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(r), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases emailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://cingular.mediaroom.com/. DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Kelly Layne Starling of Cingular Wireless, +1-561-775-4259, or Web site: http://www.cingular.com/ http://cingular.mediaroom.com/

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