AT&T News

AT&T announced on February 9, 2009 the installation of 100 new cell sites throughout Florida. This wil expand AT&T’s 3g network in Florida to allow even more people to jump on the fast train of communication. Today’s busy lifestyles demand mobility and quickness, something AT&T is able to offer in more and more locations.

In November 2008, AT&T in partnership with Activision Publishing showed the world it’s rockin’ side with the AT&T & Guitar Hero Rock the World offering.

The offering gave new high speed Internet customers or U-Verse customers the most recently released version of Guitar Hero – Guitar Hero World Tour.

The newest Windows powered Smartphone is now available on AT&T’s global 3G network. AT&T introduced the new LG Incite Global 3G Smartphone to its U.S. customers. The Incite is only available through AT&T and is sure to shake up the communications market with its advanced technology.

AT&T announced that its Network Disaster Recovery program has reached fruition. After a year-long effort to bring together all the necessary components to insure that wired and wireless communications remain intact during disaster situations.

With an investment of over $500 million dollars in its NDR program and over 150 portable trailers carrying technological equipment that can be deployed on a moment’s notice, AT&T has moved ahead of the pack in preparing for a national or even worldwide disaster that could affect communications.

AT&T has announced that it will become a part of the movement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AT&T released a statement to the press that they would welcome the chance work with the EPA and stakeholders to develop new and innovative approaches to reducing greenhouse emissions.

With winter storms that can take out power lines and leave people stranded for days without phone service, AT&T has made preparations to weather the storm, should it arrive.

Experts are already calling for this to be a much colder than average winter, increasing the likelihood that there will be emergency situations where the mobile phone is the only communication tool.

Cell phone users who have ever had a question while on the go and used the ChaCha service will be happy to know that AT&T have formed a relationship. This relationship will allow AT&T users who access the free ChaCha service to be greeted with a co-branded greeting.

AT&T has jumped ahead of the competition with the introduction of AT&T U-verse Voice, the name they have given to their AT&T Internet Phone Service. Currently the service is being tested in several areas in Wisconsin. AT&T’s Internet Phone service is their brand of VoIP.

AT&T’s new Telepresence Solution is the first telepresence solution to be an end-to-end or B2B solution. Partnering Cisco’s TelePresence technology and AT&T’s world-wide networking capabilities, this solution to offers the advantages of being a scalable, fully-managed reliable environment that is also highly secure. The Telepresence Solution allow businesses using the AT&T Business Exchange to have personal, conference meetings via the telephone with the unique ability to provide a secure code for attendees to dial in with.

In December of 2008 AT&T announced the Greatest Moment in AT&T Cotton Bowl History contest. The winning moment to be determined by ‘the people’.

The January 2nd, 2009 Cotton Bowl is to be the last played in the Cotton Bowl Stadium. Voting for the Greatest Moment is via the Internet or by texting.

AT&T believes this is a great way to get college football enthusiasts involved in the decision making and put their wireless technology in the middle of the action as well.
The Greatest Moment in Cotton Bowl History is narrowed down to three choices.