AT&T Invests More Than $325 Million Over 3-Year Period to Boost Local Networks in Sacramento, Arden-Arcade, and Roseville Areas
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- At AT&T1, we've invested more than $325 million in our Sacramento, Arden-Arcade, and Roseville wireless and wired networks during 2015-2017. These investments boost reliability, coverage, speed and overall performance for residents and businesses. They also improve critical services that support public safety and first responders.
"Our customers expect to have access at any moment, from almost any device – almost anywhere," said Tim Ray, AVP External Affairs, AT&T California. "And we're investing heavily to deliver faster, more reliable, highly secure connectivity to meet - and exceed - those expectations for Sacramento area residents."
AT&T is also expanding 5G Evolution and LTE-LAA technologies which we launched in parts of Sacramento in April. AT&T's LTE-LAA technologies can enable theoretical peak speeds for capable devices of up to 1 gigabit per second.2 5G Evolution serves as a runway to 5G by boosting the existing LTE network and priming it for the future of connectivity.
"It is essential that our citizens and businesses have access to telecommunications infrastructure to connect with each other," said City of Sacramento Councilmember Rick Jennings. "AT&T's continued investment in our community helps enhance economic growth, increase access to educational opportunities and improve our quality of life."
The AT&T LTE network now covers more than 400 million people in North America. Recent Sacramento network enhancements include the deployment of 8 small cells to boost network capacity in high-traffic areas of downtown Sacramento, Arden Fair Mall, and the Robla neighborhood. Small cells help bring customers faster download speeds, improved call quality and a better overall wireless experience.
Since the formation of the FirstNet public-private partnership a little over a year ago, governors from all 50 states, 5 territories and D.C. recognized the value of FirstNet, joining in its mission to strengthen and modernize public safety's communications capabilities.
FirstNet is a new nationwide communications platform dedicated to America's public safety community. As we build, deploy and evolve FirstNet, we will build upon our current and planned investments in California to help ensure public safety's network delivers the coverage and cutting-edge capabilities first responders expect – today and for decades to come.
For the 4th year in a row, AT&T earned the top spot in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE's Most Admired Companies list in 2018. We also placed No. 49 among the 50 most admired companies across all industries.
We were ranked first or second in all 9 attributes used to compile the list, including innovation, people management, quality of management, long-term investment value, quality of products/services and global competitiveness.
Our internet offerings
We have the largest fiber network within our 21-state wireline footprint.3 And AT&T is the largest U.S.-based provider of fiber for business services, creating an unparalleled ability to serve businesses of all sizes.
We also now market a 1 gigabit connection4 on our 100% fiber network to 9 million locations across 71 major metro areas nationwide. We plan to reach at least 14 million locations across at least 84 metro areas by mid-2019 for consumers.
To learn more about our coverage in Sacramento, Arden-Arcade, and Roseville or anywhere in the U.S., go to the AT&T Coverage Viewer. For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please go to the AT&T network news page.
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2 Actual speeds are lower and will vary. See http://about.att.com/sites/broadband/performance for more information on wireless speeds.
3 Based on publicly available data for the top fiber providers in the AT&T operating footprint.
4 Actual customer speeds may vary. Download speeds are typically up to 940Mbps due to overhead capacity reserved to deliver the data.
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