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More Than 100 New Sites to be Added Across Tennessee By Year-End NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's largest wireless carrier is growing its network and meeting the need for enhanced coverage in the Midstate. Cingular Wireless today announced that it recently added two new cell sites in the area, ensuring Middle Tennessee customers stay connected. These new sites are some of the more than 100 new cell sites Cingular has planned for Tennessee before the end of the year. These new sites serve the following areas: - The town of Belfast, southeast of Lewisburg in Marshall County, and along US 431/State Route 50, enhancing signal strength and coverage. - Brook Hollow, between Belle Meade and West Meade in the Green Hills area of south Nashville, enhancing coverage and filling in some areas of weak signal strength. "These two new additions to our network reflect the population growth in Middle Tennessee. More and more people are moving to this part of the state, creating greater demand for dependable, high-quality wireless service," said Jim Thorpe, vice president and regional manager for Cingular's Tennessee and Kentucky market. "Our Cingular Wireless network engineers work around the clock to ensure our Middle Tennessee customers have the very best network and service possible. These new cell sites are helping us live up to that promise." Cingular Wireless plans to spend more than $235 million on its Tennessee network before year-end, increasing coverage and capacity, building more than 100 new cell sites, adding portable generators and back-up batteries, and offering enhanced new features. Significantly, Cingular recently launched its third-generation (3G) wireless network technology in 16 major cities, with more to follow across the country, including Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis. With 3G, customers will access information and applications at broadband speeds in the office, on the road or at home. The service-via laptop data cards or 3G-compatible phones this year-provides average mobile data connections between 400-700Kbps (kilobits per second) on the downlink and bursts to more than a megabit per second. Cingular's local investment is part of a more than $6 billion commitment to enhance and expand its ALLOVER(R) Network nationwide this year. About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 57.3 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation-the ALLOVER(R) network-and the largest mobile- to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is a leader in third generation wireless technology. Its 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(R), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases emailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://cingular.mediaroom.com/. DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Laurie Parker of Cingular Wireless, +1-615-221-3690, or wireless, +1-615-202-3463, or Web site: http://www.cingular.com/ http://cingular.mediaroom.com/

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