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ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Cingular Wireless cell site located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 27 and County Highway 474 in Clermont is expanding coverage in southeastern Lake County. The new site is providing connecting coverage along these routes and in the surrounding residential areas. It is one of 16 new Cingular cell sites to be built in West, Central and North Florida before year's end. "Quality and coverage are everything in our business," said Rudy Hermond, vice-president and general manager for Cingular's West, Central and North Florida markets. "It's great to see the investments we're making in our network are paying off for our customers." Cingular, the nation's largest wireless carrier, has invested more than $340 million in the Florida network alone this year building new cell sites, adding generators, completing the integration of the former AT&T Wireless and Cingular networks, and rolling out its ultra fast 3G network, which 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 58.7 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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