AT&T Says It Has Invested $90 Million In Arkansas In 2013

In the first half of 2013, AT&T says it invested more than $90 million in its wireless and wired networks in Arkansas.

The investments included deployment of new macro cell sites, small cells and Distributed Antenna Systems across the state as a part of AT&T’s Project Velocity IP, a three-year investment plan announced last fall to expand and enhance its IP broadband networks. The company also expanded and enhanced its 4G LTE network, which provides faster mobile Internet speeds, and deployed new Wi-Fi hot spots.

“Fast, reliable connectivity is essential to both quality of life and competitiveness at work,” said Ed Drilling, president of AT&T Arkansas. “No one understands that better than we do, and no one is doing more than AT&T to mobilize a world that works for people in Arkansas.”

Drilling said in February that AT&T had invested more than $700 million in Arkansas over the last four years in order to keep up with heavy increases in data traffic on the company’s infrastructure.

“Since 2007, the amount of wireless data that travels on our network has gone up by 20,000 percent,” Drilling said at the time.