www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a top AT&T Inc executive, the company is required to improve the quality of its wireless services in areas such as New York City and San Francisco if it wants to throw competition to other operators.

Some improvements have been made by the telco in the year 2009 but more upgrades has to be planned this year to accommodate faster mobile data services. However, the deployment of 3.5 G HSPA 7.2 standards has been planned by the telco in 25 of the country’s 30 largest markets this year.

The company expects that upgrade will be in place across 90% of its 3G footprint by the end of 2011. Long Term Evolution (LTE) trials have also been planned by AT&T before commercially launching the 4G standard in 2011.