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technology, we provide 5G network available licenses. We plan to deploy this combination of spectrum will provide the
coverage that delivers the speeds, security mid-band spectrum starting at the end of coverage, reliability, security and speeds
and lower latency connections that this year and into 2022 and beyond. It will that customers deserve and the ability to
customers and businesses need,” said Jeff complement our nationwide 5G network deliver the experiences customers have
McElfresh, CEO – AT&T Communications. on low band and allow us to deliver faster told us they value – across mobility, fiber
“Over the past five years, AT&T has average speeds across the country. Our and fixed wireless internet.
invested more capital in the U.S. than any
other public company.”. Between 2016
and 2020, AT&T’s total investment in the
United States, including capital investment
and acquisitions of spectrum and wireless
operations, was more than $105 billion.
Over the past five years, AT&T has invested
more in the United States than any other
public company. Our 5G network now
covers 230M Americans in 14,000 cities
and towns and AT&T 5G+ is now available
in parts of 38 cities in the U.S.1 Our ability to
tap into our unique combination of assets
across WarnerMedia and AT&T coupled
with our fiber and mobility strengths
mean we are positioned to win. During
the recent C-band auction, we secured
80mhz of spectrum and a 29% share of the

UK’s First 5G Immersive Classroom Brings Richer
Learning Experience to Pupils

With schools reopening across the UK Immersive Classroom, the UK’s first learning environment. The 360-degree
this month, pupils in North Lanarkshire 5G-enabled immersive classroom has room creates a digital projection that uses
can now experience what it’s like to be in arrived in Scotland. The new immersive all four classroom walls and the ceiling
outer space, under the ocean, on a World classroom has been developed within to bring the real-world into an immersive
War 1 battlefield or even on top of Everest the Muirfield Centre in Cumbernauld, experience for students. The concept
- thanks to a new initiative which is the North Lanarkshire, where a room has aims to push beyond traditional methods
first of its kind in the UK. Led by North been transformed – using innovative of teaching to create an inclusive digital
Lanarkshire Council, BT and Interactive technology - into an engaging and digital experience that helps explain abstract
and challenging concepts through a 3D
model. It will also have the potential to
support students with learning difficulties
in developing imagination, creative and
critical thinking and problem-solving
skills. BT has deployed its 5G Rapid Site
solution to support 5G innovation and
digital transformation of UK’s education
sector. The solution is made possible
through the EE 5G network which brings
ultrafast speeds and enhanced reliability
to classrooms now, and into the future.
With the greater bandwidth that the
solution provides, students and teachers
can livestream virtually from any location
with minimal disruption and connect
many more devices than on previous

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