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News for our Virginia Members: AT&T Spendinging to Improve Hampton Roads Coverage

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7/25/08 at 5:47am
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from http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=1E6CD541EEC249F98770B042BE318202&siteid=nbst

 

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Part of the 2008 investment plan calls for 76 new cell sites in the state, including 26 planned sites in the Hampton Roads area. Four sites are already beefing up coverage -- one along South Henry Street in Williamsburg, another in Chesapeake City, one west of Elizabeth City, North Carolina and a fourth off US60 between Williamsburg and Yorktown.

 

The remaining 22 sites will enhance and expand coverage to the following areas later this year:
    -- Oak Grove
    -- Birdneck Point
    -- City of Chesapeake by Johnstown Road
    -- Near Douglas Road
    -- Between Bell Mills Rd and Rt. 104
    -- Area surrounding Honey Bee Golf Club
    -- Ferrell Parkway by Virginia Beach
    -- North of Western Highway, I-64
    -- South Hill Community
    -- Aragona Boulevard and North Witchduck Road.
    -- West of Old Dominion University community
    -- Along Portsmouth (SR-337) and Victory Boulevards (SR-239)
    -- Cavalier Boulevard
    -- US-13 South
    -- Beach Road in Hampton
    -- Magruder Blvd
    -- Christopher Newport University
    -- Crawford Rd in Yorktown
    -- US-60
    -- Williamsburg
    -- Ford's Colony in Williamsburg
    -- Severn and Maryus
Planned 2008 investment in the state also calls for enhanced coverage in Richmond with 17 sites, Roanoke with 15 sites, Charlottesville with six sites, Harrisonburg with five sites, Danville with four sites and Lynchburg with three sites. These sites will complement the high speed third generation (3G) wireless network that the company launched in 2007 to boost coverage and capacity in Hampton Roads and Richmond. In addition, the company also completed 61 new cell sites in 2007, including bringing coverage to Norfolk Airport.

The company will deliver 3G service to nearly 350 leading U.S. markets by the end of 2008, including all of the top 100 U.S. cities. AT&T products and services are available in 30 company-owned stores and 198 authorized agent and national retail locations, such as Wal-Mart, Costco and RadioShack in the state.

 

 


Edited by deej - Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:21:23 GMT
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8/19/08 at 7:08am
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I live in the Richmond area, anyone have a 3G capable phone now with any comment on speed and potential spottiness of 3G coverage? I'm thinking of dropping some coin on the new iphone but not sure if it's worth at this point living in this region.

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8/20/08 at 3:13pm
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I would wait until the iPhone 3G access issues are ironed out.  Even if you are in a great 3G area you may or may not run into problems... I'd wait until the consumer consensus is the issues are all ironed out.  Maybe by that time the unit will have dropped a hundred bucks too.

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8/22/08 at 7:37am
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I'm thinking we might be looking at iPhone 3.0 before that happens. That said, maybe this class action lawsuit will get traction and Apple will stick it to AT&T to get more density.

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8/22/08 at 1:42pm
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Originally Posted by pgens:

Maybe by that time the unit will have dropped a hundred bucks too.

 

Hopefully it'll have 32GB of storage too.  I wish mine had more, the 16GB is almost full.

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