LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At
AT&T1, we've invested more than $250 million in our greater Louisville area 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.
The AT&T LTE network covers nearly 400 million people in
North America. Notable network
enhancements in the greater Louisville area in 2016 included:
- 102 bandwidth expansions
- 63 additional carrier adds
AT&T plans to continue its investment in Kentucky with additional upgrades.
"Our wired and wireless buildout plans in Kentucky include hundreds of millions of
dollars dedicated to improving our networks," said Hood Harris,
president of AT&T Kentucky. "These plans, which also pave the
path to 5G mobile services in the years ahead, represent the type
of investment that is encouraged by forward-looking public policies
like the act modernizing communications regulations that Governor
Bevin recently signed."
"As we hear of investments like this, we can be thankful for the
leadership of our state and local officials who were key in
creating an environment that can lead to greater investments in
Kentucky's communications
networks," said Kent Oyler,
president and CEO Greater Louisville Inc.
Additionally, 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 Kentucky
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 Kentucky'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 continue to expand the scope of our ultra-fast internet
powered by AT&T Fiber. We now market our ultra-fast internet
service powered by AT&T Fiber to more than 50,000 customer
locations in the greater Louisville area.
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 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 network4 at no additional
cost. Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly wireless
data plans.
To learn more about our coverage in Louisville 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.
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
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