AT&Thas turned on its4G LTEnetwork** inRutland, bringing customers the latest generation of wireless network technology. This expansion is part of AT&T's Project Velocity IP (VIP), a three-year investment plan announced in Fall 2012 to expand and enhance its IP broadband networks. Through this investment, AT&T is supporting its customers' growing desire for high-speed Internet access and new mobile, app and cloud-based services. As part of Project VIP, AT&T plans to add macro cell sites nationwide by year-end 2015, as well as deploy small cells and add Distributed Antenna Systems to increase the density of its wireless network.
AT&T 4G LTE provides:
- Faster speeds.LTE technology is capable of delivering speeds faster than many othermobile Internettechnologies***. Customers can stream, download, upload and game faster than ever before.
- Reliability.AT&T has the nation's most reliable 4G LTE network.
- Cool new devices.AT&T offers several LTE-compatible devices, including new AT&T 4G LTEsmartphonesandtablets.
- Faster response time.LTE technologyoffers lower latency than other wireless technologies, which means faster processing time to move data through a network, such as initiating a webpage or file download. Lower latency helps to improve services like mobile gaming, two-way video calling and telemedicine.
- More efficient use of spectrum.Wireless spectrum is a finite resource, and LTE uses spectrum more efficiently than other technologies, creating more space to carry data traffic and services and to deliver a better network experience.
"We continue to see demand for mobile Internet skyrocket, and our4G LTE networkinRutlandresponds to what customers want from their mobile experience — more, faster, reliably, on the best devices," saidPatricia Jacobs, President, AT&T New England.
RUTLAND, Vt.,Aug. 27, 2014/PRNewswire/ --AT&T