BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- At AT&T1, we've invested nearly $35 million in our Brownsville wireless and wired networks during 2015-2017. These investments boost reliability, coverage, speed and overall performance for residents and businesses. They also improve critical services that support public safety and first responders.

In 2017, AT&T made 26 wireless network upgrades in the Brownsville area that included boosting network capacity. 

"Reliable and secure wireless connections are driving changes and innovation and are vital for a community's economic growth and stability," said J.D. Salinas, AT&T Regional Vice President, External Affairs. "At AT&T, we're putting our investment dollars to work in the Brownsville community to ensure businesses and residents here have access to the technology they need where they live, work, study and play."

These investments also support expanding 5G Evolution and LTE-LAA technologies in Brownsville, which we launched in some communities in April. These technologies serve as the runway to 5G by boosting the existing LTE network and priming it for the future of connectivity.

"For Brownsville to continue to thrive and serve its residents, it's imperative we welcome investment and innovation in our community," said Eddie Lucio, Jr., Texas State Senator. "With local investment of nearly $35 million, AT&T is committed to ensuring we have a robust and reliable telecommunications infrastructure that will allow our community to compete in a connected economy."

The AT&T LTE network now covers more than 400 million people in North America.

By building out our 4G LTE network, we're laying the foundation for 5G, the next advance in network technologies. We're boosting network speeds and capacity, as we continue to expand the availability of our network using the latest technology.

Since the formation of the FirstNet public-private partnership a little over a year ago, governors from all 50 states, 5 territories and D.C. recognized the value of FirstNet, joining in its mission to strengthen and modernize public safety's communications capabilities.

FirstNet is a new nationwide communications platform dedicated to America's public safety community. As we build, deploy and evolve FirstNet, we will build upon our current and planned investments in Texas to help ensure public safety's network delivers the coverage and cutting-edge capabilities first responders expect – today and for decades to come.

For the 4th year in a row, AT&T earned the top spot in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE's Most Admired Companies list in 2018. We also placed No. 49 among the 50 most admired companies across all industries.

We were ranked first or second in all 9 attributes used to compile the list, including innovation, people management, quality of management, long-term investment value, quality of products/services and global competitiveness.

Our internet offerings

We have the largest fiber network within our 21-state wireline footprint.2 And AT&T is the largest U.S.-based provider of fiber for business services, creating an unparalleled ability to serve businesses of all sizes.

We also now market a 1 gigabit connection3 on our 100% fiber network to 9 million locations across 71 major metro areas nationwide.  We plan to reach at least 14 million locations across at least 84 metro areas by mid-2019 for consumers.

To learn more about our coverage in Brownsville or anywhere in the U.S., go to the AT&T Coverage Viewer. For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please go to 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.

2 Based on publicly available data for the top fiber providers in the AT&T operating footprint.

3 Actual customer speeds may vary. Download speeds are typically up to 940Mbps due to overhead capacity reserved to deliver the data.

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