Southern Linc Information

Southern Linc is an Atlanta, Georgia based integrated digital wireless service provider that began serving commercial customers in February 1996. Southern Linc was developed by its parent company, Southern Company (NYSE: SO), to meet the wireless communications needs of commercial users as well as Southern Company's subsidiaries including Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Mississippi Power. Southern Linc is known for providing highly reliable Push To Talk (PTT) communications. With built-in redundancies, power back-ups and security features designed to enable communications even under the worst weather conditions, Southern Linc has proven its reliability by withstanding the test of the most violent hurricanes, tornadoes and storms in recent history. Southern Linc’s new CriticalLinc 4G LTE Advanced network will be made available to existing customers in 2018. This highly reliable network will have the capacity to serve the most crucial voice and data needs of State and local government, area businesses as well as those of its largest customer, Southern Company’s electric utilities. The new 4G LTE Advanced network will provide network encryption over the air and Mission Critical Push To Talk (MCPTT) service from Motorola Solutions. This will be the first US offering of Motorola’s robust two-way radio service originally designed for public sector and first responder radio users. MCPTT communications can be encrypted between users as well as across the CriticalLinc network. This new wireless network utilizes a host of redundant systems and equipment including geographically diverse core data centers to increase its reliability. Combine this highly reliable, highly secure network with mission critical Push To Talk and the world’s most rugged phones and you have a wireless service unlike any other in the Southeast. For more information on Southern Linc, visit www.southernlinc.com/LTE. Twitter: @southernlinc Facebook: SouthernLINCWireless