AT&T Wireless has announced an aggressive offer which willeliminate cellular roaming charges for many of its customers.This offer is made possible because of the company's doubling ofits national GSM coverage area in the past year, which is nowapproximately 1.2 million square miles in the United States.During the past year AT&T has has improved and/or added 15,000cell sites. Major improvements have also been made in its GSMnetwork, according to AT&T Wireless, in a recent news releaseThese very positive changes will benefit cell phone usersthroughout the country, who have been paying hefty cellularphone roaming charges, once out of their coverage area. This hasalways been a major source of dissatisfaction with mobile phoneusers for many years. All AT&T Wireless customers can enroll inthis new national plan, which is called GSM America, togetherwith existing customers who are on one of the company'squalifying GSM plans. Wireless phone users can automaticallybenefit by paying no roaming charges anywhere in the UnitedStates. As long as these customers are using a wireless dataservice, they no longer have to worry about paying for roamingcharges when they place their calls. This is not only great newsfor cellular phone customers but also for business customers.Large businesses whose employees have to travel for work, cannow use their wireless date applications anywhere they travel.Not only do they have more coverage areas, but they also incurlower costs for their company. In addition to expanding itscoverage area, AT&T Wireless has also vastly improved thequality of their GSM network and they have installed hardwareand software which allows customers to enjoy superior wirelesscalling communication, through new GSM devices which generate astronger signal, travel over a larger area and penetrate wallsfar better and more efficiently. These network improvements haveenhanced calling quality in many of the large major cities inthe country. These upgrades have led to increases in signalstrength of almost double and the audio quality of calls isvastly improved. Unlike before, where signals were very oftenpoor or non-existent inside buildings, it is now being reportedthat calls are coming through loud and clear from insidebuildings. In order for mobile phone customers to enjoy thelarger GSM service area and the superior network quality, allnew devices which AT&T Wireless introduces this year will be 850compatible. The latest Motorola V600 camera phone will also becompatible. The new AT&T Wireless GSM American national planwill allow cellular customers to take advantage of the benefitsof the larger and more improved GSM coverage area. For as littleas $39.99 per month, customers can enjoy 450 anytime minuteseach month and they will not have to pay roaming or domesticlong distance charges. In addition to these great services,customers will get free unlimited mobile to mobile calls onAT&T's Wireless GSM network. If customers wish to choose aslightly more expensive cellular phone plan, they can getunlimited evening and weekend calling, starting at 7:00pm. Forthose customers who make most of their calls from their homecoverage area, they can choose a local version of the AT&TWireless GSM American plan that suits their needs.
