AT&T Ready for Tropical Storm Hanna in South Carolina

Provider Offers Tropical Storm Communications Tips for Residents and Small Businesses

As residents and businesses across the Southeast begin to recover from the impact of Hurricane Gustav, AT&T Inc. is also taking steps to prepare equipment and facilities for a potential strike by Tropical Storm Hanna.

Despite the extensive commercial power outages caused by Hurricane Gustav, AT&T's network continues to perform well because of extensive pre-storm preparation. The company has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to create and maintain its Network Disaster Recovery capabilities.

A critical element of AT&T's efforts to maximize network reliability is the company's ability to swiftly respond when disaster strikes. This is made possible by AT&T's pre-season and pre-storm preparation which includes: ongoing readiness drills, topping off fuel at generators positioned at cell sites and switching centers, testing high-capacity backup batteries, adding capacity to the wireless network, and staging additional emergency response equipment in strategic locations.

Comcast’s Blast service - Doubling its Broadband Speed

Comcast has achieved its competitive edge by offering Blast, a new tier of broadband Internet service which allows for the 16 Mbps downloads. That’s nearly twice the speed of its own Performance Plus service which averages 10 megabits per second. Speeds for uploads are also increasing from 768 kilobits per second to 2 Mbps. AT&T plans to counter Comcast’s new service by offering its own service upgrade later this year.
Speeds up to 100 Mbps Planned in the Future

Comcast intends to further upgrade its broadband speed through a new standard called Docsis 3.0 which may deliver download speeds up to 100 Mbps by the end of the year. The technology may eventually allow for download speeds as high as 160 Mbps.

AT&T blue room Brings Rock Fans Live Webcast of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas

Two-Day Event and Webcast Features Performances by Some of the Biggest
Alternative Rock Bands of the Year

Christmas is just a fewshort weeks away, but fans of rock music are about to get an early gift that will have them rockin' around the computer screen!

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced today that the AT&T blue room (www.attblueroom.com) will give fans around the country exclusive access to the annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas event. Based in Los Angeles, the world-famous KROQ is the most listened to and, arguably, the most influential rock station in the country. For more than 15 years, the station has been attracting established and up-and-coming alternative rock bands and singers to perform for fans at its yearly Almost Acoustic Christmas event.

Concert footage and backstage interviews from KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas will be streamed live via AT&T blue room music (www.attblueroom.com/music) on both Saturday, Dec. 8, and Sunday, Dec. 9. The artist lineup includes such bands as:

-- Angels & Airwaves -- Paramore
-- Avenged Sevenfold -- Rise Against
-- Bad Religion -- Serj Tankian
-- Feist -- The Shins
-- Jimmy Eat World -- Spoon

In addition to the live streaming content, select performances also will be archived on blue room enabling fans to relive their favorite performances all holiday season.

AT&T offers free music for Xmas

To mark the holiday season AT&T is offering a brand new selection of music, games and e-cards to its customers.

New holiday-themed ring tones and answer tones can be acquired by AT&T customers completely free of charge and include favorites such as Jingle Bells, Noche de Paz and the Dreidel Song. Among the answer tones that one can choose from are Rockin Around the Christmas Tree by Cyndi Lauper and Wizards in Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Mark Collins, vice president of consumer data for AT&T's wireless unit, said: "This time of year is traditionally one of the most popular for music and entertainment downloads. "AT&T is excited to offer free and festive holiday favorites for customers to enjoy throughout the season." As well as the music on offer, AT&T has also made available a new game, entitled Santa's Tower Bloxx, by Digital Chocolate.

Meanwhile AT&T's Virtual National Customer Service Center has been named as one of 2007's top ten projects.

LG Launches Multimedia Phone Through AT&T

The electronics giant LG has chosen AT&T to be the exclusive carrier for its cutting-edge new Trax multimedia phone.

Measuring four inches by two inches, the clamshell-configured device will be able to connect to AT&T's wireless video-sharing network. Set to retail for $130, the phone will become available on Tuesday through AT&T stores and online. Carlton Hill, vice president of Product Management for AT&T's wireless unit, commented: "The Trax by LG is more than a music phone.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

"With top-notch video and data capabilities, in addition to a sleek design, this device will hit the right note with many of our customers." Featured on the Trax will be AT&T Mobile Music, which can be used to download songs from subscription music services. Users will also be able to and AT&T's Cellular Video (CV) service. Through CV, one can watch channels such as CNN, iFilm, Comedy Central, HBO and the Weather Channel.

AT&T is also the exclusive carrier for Apple's iPhone, which was launched in July. Click here for more information on AT&T digital products and services.