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Central Arkansas-area residents now have a new — and better — choice for their television and communications services. AT&T today announced the launch of the company’s integrated suite of AT&T U-verse^SM services, including AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice.

AT&T U-verse brings together your TV, broadband, home phone and AT&T wireless services — all on one bill — with unique features that provide a new level of integration, convenience and control. AT&T U-verse TV, High Speed Internet and Voice services are all delivered over AT&T’s advanced Internet Protocol (IP) network.

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Vancouver, B.C. — Speed through the air with style. AT&T and Sierra Wireless today announced the availability of the AT&T USBConnect Mercury, the newest and smallest addition to AT&T’s High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)-capable lineup of LaptopConnect devices on the nation’s fastest third-generation (3G) network.

Designed and manufactured by Sierra Wireless, the AT&T USBConnect Mercury is a convenient, easy-to-use USB device that provides a high speed connection to the AT&T wireless network whenever it’s needed. The device provides plug-and-play installation by including a preloaded version of AT&T Communication Manager software for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and 2000 notebooks and Sierra’s Watcher™ software for Mac notebooks (versions 10.4.11 or later) so that new customers can get up and running quickly and easily.

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Wireless customers of AT&T can send $5 donations to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund by sending a text message from their mobile phones. A customer simply types the word GIVE and sends it to "2HELP" (24357). A confirmation message will arrive within a few minutes, to which the customer replies "yes" or "no."

The national Text 2HELP Initiative is a partnership between the American Red Cross and the Wireless Foundation, an industry coalition. The funds raised through the program go to the Disaster Relief Fund, which enables the Red Cross to provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to the victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year, including hurricanes like Gustav.

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Sprint today announced availability of its latest Nextel Direct Connect phone - the Motorola Renegade(TM) V950. This new handset features a slim, clamshell form factor built to Military specifications 810F for dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain and incorporates Nextel Direct Connect(1) push-to-talk services, the speed of Sprint Mobile Broadband(1) and Sprint’s largest voice calling area, giving customers yet another option to meet their productivity needs with connection in less than one second to millions of existing Nextel Direct Connect subscribers nationwide.

Powered by Qualcomm’s QChat technology, the Motorola Renegade V950 provides industry-leading push-to-talk performance, while operating on certain Rev. A portions of the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network. Users can enjoy instant one-to-one push-to-talk communication that is interoperable with the millions of existing Nextel Direct Connect users as well as the one-to-many Group Connect that allows for quick communication with up to 20 other Nextel Direct Connect users on Sprint enabled PPT phones.(1)

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M320 and M220 by Samsung
Perfectly Paired and Packed with Essentials

Offered exclusively from Sprint, the M320 and M220 by Samsung are attractive and affordable devices offering the essentials for communication and productivity. While the M320 offers a camera and the M220 does not, they are otherwise similar by featuring easy-to-use menus, bright displays, speakerphone, Bluetooth technology, Internet access and SMS voice and text messaging. Styled with a smooth, rounded finish, the M320 by Samsung is available in deep red while the M220 by Samsung is available in medium blue.

ENTERTAINMENT

• Text and SMS Voice Messaging capable
• VGA camera with zoom (M320 by Samsung only)
• Downloadable games, ringers and screen savers
• Picture Caller ID

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i365 by Motorola

BASICS:

• Form factor: Monolith form factor
• Design: Mil-spec certified ruggedness
• Dimensions: 5.3’’ x 2.1’’ x 1.2’’
• Weight 6.7 ounces
• Network: iDEN® 800/900 MHz for Nextel Direct Connect1, interconnect and data
• Display: 64K colors; 130 x 130 monolith
• Battery Specifications: Max Capacity Li-Ion
• Talk Time: Approximately 300 minutes3

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Understanding that the telecommunications industry can play a unique and significant role in protecting the environment, Alcatel-Lucent joins forces with the Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA) in the Broadband Environment Challenge, offering $10,000 in prize money for the best papers on broadband applications and solutions with potential to deliver benefits to environmental sustainability.

The Eckermann-TJA Prize, named after the founder of the Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Environment Challenge, Professor Robin Eckermann, will be awarded to the paper which best demonstrates how an existing use of broadband technology delivers environmentally sustainable benefits, or which proposes new ways of delivering eco-sustainability benefits.

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Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it will provide a new Local Area Network (LAN) solution to the Ministry of Education in Turkey. Under the Ministry’s management, the advanced network will offer improved data services to more than 7,500 users in the main Ministry building and in more than 10 offices across the country.

Working with business partner MERİT, who provided installation support and ongoing service support, the Alcatel-Lucent network will enable secure access to the main network from any location via a virtual LAN. This deployment is considered to be one of the largest 802.1x application deployments in the Turkish market.

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AT&T today announced the availability of at least 2,000 GoPhone devices with $15 in air time to residents who have been ordered to evacuate their homes due to Hurricane Gustav. The phones will be made available on a first-come, first-serve basis while supplies last to residents who live in any area that government has declared a mandatory evacuation area  

The phones will be available at all company-owned AT&T retail locations in Houston and San Antonio, both cities seeing large numbers of incoming evacuees from Louisiana and far southeast Texas. AT&T is rushing extra shipments of GoPhones to the Houston and San Antonio stores, and they are expected to be available as early as Monday evening. AT&T company-owned stores can be found at http://www.wireless.att.com/find-a-store

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Alcatel-Lucent is showcasing its leadership in the deployment of broadcast mobile TV at the world’s largest Consumer Electronics trade fair, the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 2008, held from August 29 to September 3 in Berlin (Alcatel-Lucent booth: Technical and Scientific Forum (TWF) in Hall 5.3, Booth #22).

During IFA 2008, Alcatel-Lucent is demonstrating, for the first time in Europe, MPE-iFEC (Multi-Protocol Encapsulation - inter-burst Forward Error Correction), a powerful error-correction coding that improves the quality of broadcast mobile TV reception in hybrid satellite and terrestrial networks. This innovative feature is embedded in the DVB-SH mobile broadcast standard (Digital Video Broadcast – Satellite services to Handhelds).

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