ATT Press Release: $30 Million Invested in North Dakota 2009-2011

ATT invested more than $30 million in its North Dakota wireless and wireline networks from 2009 through 2011 with a focus on improving the company's mobile broadband coverage and overall performance of its networks.

During 2011, AT&T made more than 200 wireless network upgrades in four key categories in North Dakota. These enhancements include:

• Activating 11 new cell sites or towers to improve network coverage.
• Adding capacity or an extra layer of frequency to cell sites – like adding lanes to a highway – with the addition of 21 of these layers, or "carriers".
• Upgrading 178 cell sites to provide fast mobile broadband speeds.

Same time period, dollar investments by state:

• Texas: $6.3 billion
• Florida: $2.8 billion
• Massachusetts: $475 million
• Maine: $60 million
• Vermont: $50 million