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Two New Cell Sites Give Danville Area Stronger Wireless Signal.


New Study Confirms: Cellular One Outperforms All Area Competitors

DANVILLE Danville.

1 City (1990 pop. 33,828), seat of Vermilion co., E Ill., on the Vermilion River at the Ind. line; inc. 1839. It is a commercial and industrial center in a dairy, farm, and coal area.
, Ky. -- Wireless users in Danville get the strongest signal from Cellular One, according to according to
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Results, which were compiled by an independent, third-party network drive testing Wireless service providers (especially in the USA) to build maps of signal strength for designing networks base stations, use a mobile setup with a spectrum analyzer, antenna and drive through the areas, thereby creating these signal-strength maps. This is called drive-testing.  company, showed Cellular One's state-of-the-art network gives its customers the best coverage and lowest percentage of blocked calls compared to all other wireless providers in the area.

What's more, Cellular One today said customers are already enjoying even better coverage in the area as a result of two new cell sites added recently.

One site - located in Danville - will provide coverage along U.S. 127, U.S. 150 and the Danville Bypass. It also will provide coverage and additional capacity in downtown Danville.

The second new cell site is located in Perryville and will provide coverage along U.S. 150, U.S. 68 and throughout town.

"We are delivering on our commitment to bring Danville the highest quality wireless network," said Timothy J. Duffy, Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering Network Operations. "These test results confirm that the work of our Network Quality Assurance Team, along with our multimillion dollar investment has paid off in Kentucky Kentucky, state, United States
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More than 600 miles of highways, major roads and minor roads were driven by the testing company which conducted the test in September.

Cellular One has spent more than $26 million expanding and enhancing its network in central Kentucky Central Kentucky is sometimes considered the Central and Southern part of the Bluegrass region, the Far Upper Western Eastern Mountain Coal Fields, and the Far Upper Eastern Pennyroyal regions. Its major cities include Lexington and Frankfort.  over the last three years and will continue focusing its efforts on future expansion and improvements, Duffy said.

"We made a promise to our customers in Kentucky to give them the best wireless service possible," he said. "These test results prove, we've kept our promise."

Cellular One - through its cutting edge network - gives its customers access to services like camera phones, the wireless Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 and popular downloadables like ringtones and video games See video game console. . What's more, the company is the only local wireless provider to offer unlimited statewide calling plans.

For more information on the products or services of Cellular One, visit celloneusa.com or stop by the company's Danville location at 212 Skywatch Drive in Kroger Village.
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