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HANOVER, Md., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The nation’s largest wireless carrier is broadening the reach of its wireless coverage in the nation’s capital. AT&T Inc. announced today it was the first wireless carrier to provide service at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center — the largest combined hotel and convention center on the East Coast. This system is part of an overall strategy by the company to provide unparalleled indoor wireless coverage in key buildings across the city, where residents and visitors alike, work and play.
Wireless coverage extends over all 470,000 square feet of flexible convention, meeting, exhibition and pre-function space, as well as the lobby, restaurants and shopping at the hotel.
“AT&T is committed to seamlessly connect our customers with the people, information and entertainment they care about - a high quality experience is simply what our customers expect,” said Rob Forsyth, AT&T vice president and general manager of wireless operations in Washington, D.C., northern Virginia and Maryland. “Investing in in-building systems allow us to deliver on that promise, even in the nooks and crannies of some of Washington’s largest hotel and meeting spaces.”
Our continued investment in the greater Washington, D.C. area also includes the recent in-building coverage enhancements of the Hilton Washington and the Marriott’s Renaissance Washington, located across from the Washington Convention Center.
Part of the 2008 plan also includes upgrading in-building coverage in the Hyatt Regency at Capitol Hill to add third generation (3G) wireless broadband technology, giving visitors and guests blazing-fast speeds similar to those of WiFi. AT&T’s 3G network opens the door to a new era of mobile services, including LaptopConnect cards, which provide DSL-like speeds for customers to keep connected to e-mail, the Internet and business applications almost anywhere they can place a call. A 3G network also allows customers to share live streaming video from handset to handset through AT&T’s first-of-its-kind service called Video Share(SM).
Customers who are guests of the Hilton Washington north of Dupont Circle, now enjoy enhanced wireless coverage in the hotel’s common areas, including the main ballrooms, lobby, restaurants and business center. The company also beefed-up coverage in the 64,000 square foot Renaissance Washington, providing a superior wireless network experience for the hundreds of thousands of hotel guests who visit the city each year.
These three in-building systems and one 3G enhancement will compliment the 88 total cell site investment planned for 2008 in the region, which includes a total of nine in-building systems this year. Since 2005, AT&T’s planned investment on network enhancements has exceeded $500 million and AT&T has installed more than 60 in-building systems regionally to expand wireless coverage and add capacity.
AT&T products and services are available at 70 company-owned stores and more than 542 authorized agent and national retailer locations throughout the greater Washington Metro and Maryland region including Wal-Mart, Costco Wholesale, RadioShack and Best Buy.
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