Thursday, April 12, 2007

New cell towers added

(Lufkin, TX) Cellular One of East Texas announced today that it has turned on five more new cell sites.  These new cell sites are located in Lufkin, Shelbyville, Center (Hwy 7), Beckville, and Hwy 79 between Henderson and Jacksonville.  This brings the total to 18 new cellular towers added by the East Texas carrier in the past 18 months.  Other towers that have been added to Cellular One’s local service area include Martinsville, Douglas, Zavalla, Cushing, Etoile, Chireno, Neuville, Jacksonville, Huntington, Logansport, Minden, Garrison, and Henderson.

"Our top goal is to provide our customers with the best network and the best value in East Texas.  Adding more coverage through new cell sites is one of the ways we are reaching this goal.  Combined with an greatly expanded national coverage offer and the most competitive pricing in the market, we believe we offer the best of both worlds for East Texas customers," said Darrin Gifford, Market Director for Cellular One of East Texas.

Cellular One of East Texas is headquartered in Lufkin.  Cellular One has company owned retail stores in Nacogdoches, Center, Henderson, Lufkin, Jacksonville, and Carthage.  The company website is www.celloneet.com.