Cingular Wireless Names Rudy Hermond Vice President and General Manager for North, Central and West Florida

ORLANDO, Fla., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless today announced the promotion of Rudolph Hermond to vice president and general manager of the company's North Florida market, which covers southwest Florida across the state north to Panama City and just over the Georgia line. The North Florida market is among Cingular's largest markets in the country.

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During his 13-year career with the nation's largest wireless carrier, Hermond has held several management positions in engineering and sales, including vice president of Sales Operations for Cingular's Central Region (16 states) and most recently as the vice president and general manager for the company's South Central Region (Arkansas and Oklahoma).

"Rudy has a proven track record in every position he has ever held with Cingular Wireless," said Steve Sitton, president of Cingular's Southeast Region. "He's extremely passionate about his work and is one of the company's top sales leaders. We're thrilled he's leading our North Florida market."

"These are exciting times for our customers, with the recent completion of network integration in North, Central and West Florida and soon the deployment of our high-speed broadband wireless network," said Hermond. "I am excited to be representing Cingular in Florida and to be providing our customers with the best products and services in the industry."

Born and raised in Belize, Hermond migrated to the United States in 1981. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University.

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Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 57.3 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corporation , has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(tm) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is a leader in third generation wireless technology. Its 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(r), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases emailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://cingular.mediaroom.com/.