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Verizon Wireless Extends Mobile Broadband Service to Nearly All of Los Angeles County

Service Connects Mobile Laptop and PDA Users to the Internet at DSL-Like Speeds from Burbank to San Diego

Verizon Wireless announced the extension of its BroadbandAccess service to nearly all of Los Angeles county and, for the first time, portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. BroadbandAccess, now covering nearly 4,400 square miles of southern California, is the fastest wide-area wireless Internet access service available in the nation with typical user download speeds of 300-500 kilobits per second (kbps).

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, true high-speed data connection.

In southern California, BroadbandAccess is now available throughout Orange County; nearly all of Los Angeles and San Diego counties; and, portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. In Los Angeles county, BroadbandAccess is now available as far north as Burbank, Pasadena and Claremont; as far west as Panorama City, Van Nuys and Santa Monica; as far south as Rancho Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Long Beach and Catalina Island; and, as far east as Diamond Bar, Norwalk and Hawaiian Gardens. In addition, BroadbandAccess subscribers can now use the service in Riverside County in, around and between the cities of Bermuda Dunes, Palm Desert, Palm Springs and Cathedral City. In San Bernardino County, BroadbandAccess is available in and around the city of Lake Arrowhead.

In addition to its ongoing annual capital investment program to build network capacity and coverage, Verizon Wireless expects to invest $1 billion through 2005 to further deploy its EV-DO technology nationally. For the past four years, Verizon Wireless has committed $4 billion annually to its capital investment program. In California, the company has invested $3 billion in its network since the company was founded in mid-2000.

BroadbandAccess service is priced at $79.99 monthly access for unlimited use with a one- or two-year customer agreement. For a limited time, Verizon Wireless customers with unlimited use data plans can buy the BroadbandAccess PC 5220 card for $49.99 with a two-year customer agreement or $99.99 with a one-year customer agreement after $150 mail in rebate.

For more information on BroadbandAccess and Verizon Wireless data services, please visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com. Business customers can contact a Verizon Wireless Business Sales Representative directly at 1-800-VZW-4-BIZ.

Source: press release

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