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May 24, 2007
AT&T Wireless Stores to Serve As Cell Phone
Recycling Drop-Off Locations for Program that Connects Military Families
AT&T
Inc. (NYSE: T) announced today that all AT&T owned
wireless store locations nationwide will become wireless phone recycling
drop-off sites for a charitable program that benefits U.S.
military families. The new recycling program, which was started
by two teenagers, was announced just days before Memorial
Day and will be available in all company owned
stores across the U.S. by Independence Day.
Cell Phones for
Soldiers (www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com) was established by two Norwell, Mass., teenagers
to help buy prepaid phone cards for U.S. military
members who are serving overseas. The teens, Brittany Bergquist,
16, and Robbie Bergquist, 15, created a nonprofit organization
that collects and recycles used wireless phones. With proceeds
from the recycling, the organization then purchases prepaid phone
cards for military families.
Since the Bergquists founded the
program in April 2004, they have raised more than
$1 million and have sent more than 75,000 phone
cards to troops overseas. Money raised also helps fund
free phone calls for military families in the United
States so they can call their loved ones who
are stationed abroad.
AT&T is launching the new recycling program
in the weeks following Memorial Day at AT&T owned
wireless store locations throughout the Northeast, including Boston, New
York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. By Independence Day, the
company will have activated the donation program in all
AT&T owned wireless stores nationwide. This program will reach
approximately 1,800 stores in more than 1,100 cities across
the U.S.
In addition, AT&T is donating more than 30,000
prepaid phone cards — valued at more than $270,000
— to the nonprofit organization to help connect more
U.S. military families. AT&T is also providing the nonprofit
with a new volume discount for purchasing additional phone
cards. These new efforts and donations that support Cell
Phones for Soldiers build on the company's additional, ongoing
activities to provide more than 50,000 free prepaid phone
cards — valued at over $450,000 — to U.S.
military members stationed overseas throughout 2007.
"AT&T has an 85-year
tradition of supporting military members, veterans and their families,
and this project further extends that commitment—when so many
military families are separated during this time of conflict,"
said Stan Sigman, AT&T's President and CEO, Wireless. "AT&T
is glad to do its part to help keep
these families connected."
For more than 85 years, AT&T has
remained dedicated to supporting active military personnel, their families
and veterans through charitable contributions, sponsorships, the hiring of
military veterans and by maintaining policies that support reservists
when they are called to duty. Since 2000, AT&T
has donated nearly $8 million in free prepaid phone
cards to military members and has provided nearly $6
million in grants supporting military members and related nonprofit
organizations. The company has also built 70 calling centers
for military members stationed in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan,
to help keep them in touch with their families.
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