Boston, MA 12/20/2013 (wallstreetpr) – In a major overhaul of its network offering, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) plans to start deploying the so-called low-power small cells, across its network as early as next year. This move will improve customer experience on the network by avoiding traffic congestion, especially in the high traffic areas. These areas include stadiums and malls where the use of the smartphone by the customers is likely to be on higher side.
Apart from offering congestion-free connections in high traffic areas, small cells will also ensure that customers enjoy high-speed voice and data connections across the T network.
In the recent past, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has been trying and testing small cells network to ensure that they don’t interfere with its main network. Now, the company has announced that it is confident that installation of small cells will not affect its macro network, given the adjustments that have now been made in its entire network.
The current plan is to roll out small cells connection, starting 2014 and by end of 2015 AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) wants to have more than 40,000 small cells throughout its network on wireless and wire line connections.
By boosting its network capacity especially in dense areas, delivering strong signals and easing the up room in its macro network, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) hopes to attract more customers to its side. Customers demands on stronger signals on high side, for stronger signals, high-speed and reliability, and this explains why telecom operators are investing heavily in the upgradation of network and surgical insertion of small cells.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) could deploy small cells ahead of rivals Sprint (NYSE:S) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ). As it plans for boosting of its network capacity, the company is also continuing its wireless network coverage expansion and it is zeroing in on the entire European coverage. It is also systematically exiting non-core wireless operations, and this week, it announced the sale of its Connecticut wire line operations to regional operator Frontier Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:FTR).
The market values AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) at approximately $4.7 billion, and it has about 999 million shares outstanding and each share is trading in the range of $4.70.
