AT&T Launces Microsite to Show Local Network Upgrades

AT&T is now offering wireless users in the greater Boston and Providence areas a bird’s-eye view of AT&T’s wireless network enhancements. As of last week, local AT&T customers can see area network enhancements for the nation’s largest 4G network by simply visiting the new “focus: Boston-Providence” microsite. Updated weekly, the microsite provides an unparalleled view, unlike any other in the industry, of what AT&T is doing to enhance the customer experience.

Visitors to the microsite will see a map of the area – which spans from greater Boston out to Worcester, up to southern New Hampshire and down through Cape Cod and Providence - and they are prompted to select the city or town they’re most interested in exploring. The majority of AT&T’s mobile Internet traffic in this territory runs over enhanced backhaul -- or the cables that connect sites to the overall AT&T network -- to provide customers with 4G speeds.

The hyper-local map displays neighborhood-level network enhancements made by AT&T since the beginning of 2011. Enhancements include new cell sites, mobile Internet speed upgrades, capacity upgrades and network connection upgrades. The focus: Boston-Providence (http://att.com/BostonNetwork) microsite interactive map is also optimized for most mobile devices.

In the greater Boston-Providence area, from the beginning of 2011 through mid-June 2012, AT&T has:

• Built nearly 25 new cell sites, providing more bars in the area.

• Upgraded nearly 45 cell sites, providing faster mobile Internet speeds.

• Added nearly 800 carriers to increase spectrum on area cell sites, providing extra capacity to reduce dropped calls and improve service quality at busy times.

• Expanded more than 1,200 network connections with fiber lines at area cell sites, helping reduce dropped calls and enable 4G speeds.