AT&T Invests Nearly $800 Million Over 3-Year Period to Boost Local Networks in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At AT&T1, we've invested nearly $800 million in our Kentucky wireless and wired networks during 2016-2018. These investments boost reliability, coverage, speed and overall performance for residents and businesses. We've improved critical services that support Public Safety and first responders using the FirstNet communications platform. And, we've helped meet the needs of customers in largely rural areas through our participation in the FCC's Connect America Fund. AT&T's wireless network covers more than 99% of all Americans and has become the fastest wireless network in the nation, according to the first quarter 2019 results from tests taken with Speedtest® and analyzed by Ookla®. 2 In 2018, AT&T made 839 wireless network upgrades in Kentucky, notable enhancements included:
During that time, nearly $375 million of the AT&T investment in Kentucky was invested specifically in the Louisville area to make 199 upgrades to the wireless network. "Access to broadband internet is essential to operations on the job and activities in the home, and the expansion of the communications networks in Kentucky as a result of these investments are crucial to providing our citizens with the tools they need to be successful," said State Senator Paul Hornback. "We're pleased that AT&T is committed to expanding access to broadband internet in neighborhoods across the commonwealth," said Jeffersontown Mayor Bill Dieruf, president, Kentucky League of Cities. "A robust fiber-optic network plays a key role in our community's economic future, and significant investments like those made by AT&T lay the groundwork for innovation and economic growth." The AT&T LTE network covers more than 400 million people in North America. Additionally, for the 5th consecutive year we've landed on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired" companies. It's also the 6th year in a row we've appeared on the Global Top 50 list – no other telecom company made the Top 50. Transforming Public Safety Communications Building upon our current and planned investments in Kentucky, we continue to extend the reach and increase the capacity of the FirstNet communications platform:
FirstNet is built with AT&T in a public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority – an independent agency within the federal government. This helps ensure that the FirstNet communications platform and service offerings meet the short- and long-term needs of the public safety community. Our commitment to rural America Our internet offerings We plan to reach about 14 million locations across at least 85 metro areas by mid-2019 for consumers. We are the largest U.S.-based provider of fiber for business services. There are over 500,000 U.S. business buildings lit with AT&T fiber, and we're adding thousands more each month. Within those buildings, AT&T now enables high-speed fiber connections to over 2.2 million U.S. business customer locations. And if you count businesses near our fiber network, that number quadruples. Nationwide, more than 8 million business customer locations are on or within 1,000 feet of our fiber.5 To learn more about our wireless coverage in Kentucky, or anywhere in the U.S., visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page. 1 AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc. Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements *About AT&T Communications AT&T Communications is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T). Learn more at att.com/CommunicationsNews. AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc. Additional information about AT&T products and services is available at about.att.com. Follow our news on Twitter at @ATT, on Facebook at facebook.com/att and on YouTube at youtube.com/att. © 2019 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the Globe logo and other marks are trademarks and service marks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. **Based on analysis by Ookla® of Speedtest Intelligence® data average download speeds for Q1 2019. FirstNet® and the FirstNet logo are registered trademarks of the First Responder Network Authority. To define a market, we rely on the Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA), as established by the United States Office of Management and Budget. Minor differences, if any, between annual totals reflect annual updating of market boundaries in our record systems. From FORTUNE Magazine. 2019 Time Inc. FORTUNE© and The World's Most Admired Companies® are registered trademarks of Time Inc. and are used under License. FORTUNE and Time Inc. are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of, AT&T.
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