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Coverage Expanded in Hammock Beach, Palm Coast ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A new cell site on Ocean Crest Drive in eastern Flagler County is providing additional coverage to the Hammock Beach resort area and adjoining residential developments, as well as to the northeastern portion of Palm Coast and along U.S. Highway A-1-A. The new Flagler County site is one of dozens built this year in Florida by the nation's largest wireless carrier and is part of a $340 million network investment statewide. "Coverage is important to our customers, and our goal is to deliver the best in Florida," said Rudy Hermond, vice-president and general manager for Cingular's west, central and north Florida markets. Earlier this year, Cingular completed the integration of the former AT&T Wireless and Cingular networks throughout Florida and is in the process of rolling out its third-generation (3G) high-speed broadband wireless network in Florida. The service provides average mobile data connections between 400-700 kilobits per second on the downlink and bursts to more than a megabit per second. 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(TM) 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: Kelly Layne Starling of Cingular Wireless, +1-561-775-4259, or wireless, +1-561-301-1414 Web site: http://www.cingular.com/ http://cingular.mediaroom.com/

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