Cingular Adds Six New Cell Sites in South Florida

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Cingular Wireless Adds Six New Cell Sites in South Florida
Wednesday September 14, 4:28 pm ET
Company to Build 15 Sites Total in South Florida by Year End


BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless customers in South Florida now have more bars in more places thanks to the recent addition of six new cell sites in Miami-Dade, Broward and St. Lucie counties.
The new sites are part of a $6.2 billion commitment from the nation's largest wireless carrier to enhance and expand its ALLOVER(SM) network* nationwide. Since January of this year, Cingular has activated nine new cell sites in South Florida and plans to turn on six more before end of year.

"Our primary goal is to provide high-quality coverage wherever you go," said Rich Guidotti, vice president and general manager of Cingular Wireless South Florida. "Better coverage is what consumers want, and better coverage is what Cingular is delivering."


The six new cell sites are boosting coverage in the following areas:
- Along U.S. 1 from N.E. 99th Street to N.E. 110th Street and in the
residential areas east and west of U.S. 1 in Miami Shores and North
Miami;
- The growing residential areas in the Redlands along Krome Avenue near
S.W. 105th Street in southwest Miami-Dade County;
- West Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens in northwest Miami-Dade County and
along I-75, N.W. 138th Street and S.W. Miami Lakes;
- The Country Estates community in western Broward County, located
between Griffin Road and Sheridan Street and bordered by U.S. Highway
27 to the west and N.W. 172nd Avenue to the east in Pembroke Pines; and
- The north and south side of West Midway Road in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie
County), just southeast of the I-95/Turnpike crossover, which consists
- South of downtown Coral Gables along Douglas Road/S.W. 37th Avenue from
Coral Way/S.W. 22nd Street to U.S. 1 and west to Ponce de Leon
Boulevard

Since its merger with AT&T Wireless last fall, Cingular has focused on high-quality coverage, reliability and reach. Cingular's ALLOVER(SM) Network* now covers more than 270 million people and provides service throughout the U.S., including the top 100 markets. When the integration of the two networks in South Florida is completed in the summer of 2006, Cingular will have nearly 600 cell sites throughout the area. By the end of 2006 when the networks have been integrated nationwide, Cingular customers will have access to some 45,000 cell sites.

[RhoXS]

I live in Stuart (Martin County) and work in Jensen Beach (St. Lucie County). The Orange network coverage is mostly not usable in this area so it is good to see at least one new Orange site being added. The Blue network has reasonably good coverage so once the networks are integrated I am hoping to see a significant improvement in reliability and quality. I recently installed the "network select hack" to my Treao 650 and locked it in to the Blue network. This alone has taken my service from mostly unusable to a reasonably quality service.

I had numerous conversations with Cingular Tech support over the past twelve months in futile efforts to obtain a reliable service. I was told by two Tech Support "Managers" that the South Florida region (south of Orlando) would be integrated by the end of this year.