AT&T announced it’s invested nearly $65 million in upgrading their 3G network in San Francisco through Q3 2009:

“More than ever before, customers look to wireless communications to stay in touch with family, friends and business colleagues,” said Terry Stenzel, AT&T vice president and general manager for Northern California/Reno. “The additional spectrum helps to enhance the 3G network so that our customers have the best experience when they make a call, check an e-mail, download a video or song, access applications or surf the Internet on their AT&T device.”

They also mentioned SF will get some HSPA 7.2 next year as well. (First towers to go up around Cupertino in an effort to keep the iPhone-makers happy? We joke.)

Given the last update in AT&T’s lawsuit against Verizon’s “map for that” commercials, where Verizon basically said AT&T had failed to invest in their network infrastructure, we’re wondering if we’ll see more press releases like this (or emails like this) in the near future?

[Thanks Gregg for the tip!]

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AT&T Invested $65 Million in 850Mhz 3G Upgrades for San Francisco

In what might be the first and most widely accessible bit of WWDC schwag, Lonely Planet has made their San Francisco City Guide free for a limited time. [Usually $15.99 - iTunes link]

Whether you’re going to San Fran for WWDC, for any reason at any time at all, or just want you some free Golden Gated goodness for your iPhone, go grab it while it lasts!

[Via TUAW, thanks to Jamesus for the tip]

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Lonely Planet San Francisco City Guide for iPhone: Now Pre-WWDC Free!

We received a note via Twitter that there may be a problem:

wondering if you’ve heard any reports of an iPhone service outage in SF Bay Area? My iPhone and 7-8 other friends no service.

Some comments have popped up on older posts making us wonder as well. Anyone in San Francisco or California in general experiencing any AT&T outages? If so, please sound of in the comments and let us know where and when, and whether it’s back or not in your area.

And, hey, if this is isolated or already over, outage-fans fear not, there’s still CTIA in Las Vegas coming up, and we know what massive amounts of iPhones at big trade shows do to AT&T’s network…

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AT&T iPhone Outage in California/San Francisco?