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AT&T Offers Hurricane Gustav Victims Service Options While Restoration Work Continues

"Many of our consumer and business customers inLouisiana have experienced significant damage and loss due to Hurricane Gustav," said William Oliver, President, Louisiana Operations. "AT&T wants to aid them in every way we can with their communications. Our disaster recovery plan assists customers who require service in temporary locations so they can stay in touch during this difficult time."

The AT&T Disaster Relief Plan includes the following assistance for qualifying consumer and business customers:

    -- If customers cannot be in their regular home or business location, but
       want to stay in touch with family, friends, customers or suppliers,
       AT&T has waived fees on many options to keep them connected.  This
       relief is available until October 3, 2008.
    -- Service charges associated with providing dial tone phone service to a
       new or temporary location will be waived, as well as charges for a move
       back to the original location. When service is provided at the
       temporary location, one jack and associated wiring will be provided
       free of charge.
    -- One free month of the following services including a waiver of the
       secondary service charge associated with any of these:
       - AT&T Voice Mail service, which provides for calls to be answered and
         allows the caller to leave a message when you are unable to answer.
         You can retrieve messages from any touch-tone telephone.
       - Remote Access to Call Forwarding, which allows customers to activate
         or deactivate call forwarding from any telephone equipped with touch
         tone.
       - Call Forwarding Don't Answer, which automatically routes calls that
         are not answered within a designated number of rings to another
         telephone number.
       - Call Forwarding Busy Line, which automatically routes calls to
         another pre-selected telephone number when the line is busy.
       - Remote Call Forwarding, Call Forwarding Variable, Message Waiting
         Indicator, Star98 Access and Voice Mail Companion Services Package
         are also included in the list of waived services that customers could
         consider using.

Customers desiring more information about these options or other ways AT&T may assist your home or business in reestablishing communications should call the following numbers or visit http://www.att.com:

     Consumer:  888-757-6500
     Small Business Customers: 866-620-6000
     Business Customers: 800-945-6500

Customers needing to call AT&T for repair service may call us at the following phone numbers or send an online repair request at http://www.att.com:

     Consumer: 877-737-2478
     Business: 866-620-6900

In an effort to further help residents stay in touch with family and friends during this emergency, AT&T is making additional emergency communications resources available, including:

    -- Enabling free Wi-Fi access at hundreds of hot spots in Alabama,
       Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, including at select McDonald's
       restaurants, Barnes & Noble locations and AT&T Experience Store(SM)
       locations, among others.
    -- Providing free wireless GoPhones with $15 in air time to thousands of
       evacuees from mandatory evacuation areas who are sheltered in affected
       areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and south Texas.
    -- Providing free phone calls for hurricane victims at all open
       company-owned retail locations across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
       and portions of northwest Florida, including Pensacola, Fort Walton and
       Destin.
    -- Installing phone banks and DSL connections for free use by evacuees who
       are sheltered in San Antonio, Birmingham and Shreveport.

For AT&T wireless customers displaced by the storm, the company would like to remind them that all of AT&T's national wireless plans include free call forwarding, caller-id, call waiting, three-way calling and these customers never pay domestic long distance or roaming charges.

Network Restoration Continues

The company's wireless and wireline networks continue to perform well despite storm disruptions and unusually heavy usage. AT&T continues to deploy significant resources for the restoration of communications and customer support acrossLouisiana,Alabama,Mississippi andTexas in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. Nearly 2,000 AT&T personnel, including employees from half a dozen states in the Southeast, have been deployed to the affected area to assess damage and help expedite restoration efforts. Additional resources are at the ready and will be deployed as needed.

Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

Information set forth in this news release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update or revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.

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