AT&T has invested nearly $2.95 billion in its best-in-class wireless and wired networks in Illinois from 2011 through 2013, driving a wide range of upgrades to enhance speed, reliability, coverage and performance for residents and business customers.

Advancing its Project Velocity IP (VIP), an investment plan to expand and enhance its wireless and wired IP broadband networks, AT&T in 2013 made 889 network upgrades in Illinois, including: new cell sites, addition of wireless and wired network capacity, and new broadband network connections. Additionally, AT&T expanded the reach of its network, providing access to U-verse® Internet and video services to nearly 122,000 new customer locations and delivering powerful fiber-optic connections to 21,474 business locations at 636 multi-tenant business buildings and business parks.

Notable Illinois network enhancements in 2013 included:

• 4G LTE expansions in Kankakee-Bradley, Decatur, Bloomington-Normal and Pontiac, Carbondale-Marion and Quad Cities, among others.
• Improved mobile Internet coverage for Metra commuters in the Chicago area with the installation of a new 4G LTE-capable outdoor Distributed Antenna System.

For more information about AT&T’s coverage in Illinois, or anywhere in the United States, consumers can visit the AT&T Coverage Viewer. For updates on the AT&T wireless network, please visit the AT&T network news page.