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Verizon Rolls Out 3G in South Florida

23rd September, 2004

Europe : Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless company, announced today the launch of BroadbandAccess, a high-speed wireless broadband service, in select national markets including South Florida and the Tampa Bay area.

Powered by an Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) third generation (3G) wide-area network, BroadbandAccess is the fastest commercially available high-speed wide-area network in the nation, with typical user speeds of 300-500 kilobits per second (kbps), and capable of reaching speeds in excess of 2.0 mbps.

BroadbandAccess provides mobile workers full access to their corporate information, just as if they were attached via a high-speed wired connection, but with the freedom of true mobility. Developed with a range of users in mind, BroadbandAccess allows large enterprises, small-medium businesses and mobile professionals to conduct business anytime, anywhere in the BroadbandAccess coverage area via a secure, reliable, true high-speed data connection.

In South Florida, Verizon Wireless has an initial Broadband Access footprint that stretches from North Palm Beach south to Coral Gables in Miami, and west along the State Road 441 corridor. Broadband Access also will be available in Key West. In Tampa Bay, the service now covers north to Land O'Lakes and east to Brandon, with coverage to the west and south throughout most of Pinellas County, including Clearwater, downtown St. Petersburg and the beaches. The company expects to expand its BroadbandAccess network across Florida in coming months.

"BroadbandAccess is another great step in wireless technology here in Florida," said Mike Lanman, Florida region president of Verizon Wireless. "Investing in this network and know-how allows us to offer wireless consumers here the best and fastest voice and data services anywhere."

In addition to its ongoing annual capital investment program to build network capacity and coverage, Verizon Wireless expects to invest $1 billion over the next two years to deploy its EV-DO technology nationally. For the past four years, Verizon Wireless has committed $4 billion annually to its capital investment program.

Working with virtual private network (VPN) connections, enterprise customers can use BroadbandAccess as an extension of their corporate local area network (LAN) or intranet, allowing them to work from any location within the BroadbandAccess coverage area, as if they were in the office downloading files and business-critical information residing behind corporate firewalls and for accessing e-mail, intranets and the Internet.

In addition to work applications, wireless consumers will be able to use BroadbandAccess handsets and laptops equipped with PC cards to enjoy many new fun and visual capabilities. They will be able to experience Get It Now(R) applications at broadband speed, including multi-player gaming, music and video content, video messaging and other multi-media applications.

BroadbandAccess service is priced at $79.99 monthly access for unlimited use with a one- or two-year customer agreement. Through December 31, 2004, Verizon Wireless customers with unlimited use data plans can buy the BroadbandAccess PC 5220 card for $99.99 after customer agreement rebates.

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