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Blades, Delaware Residents To Benefit From Verizon Wireless Network Expansion


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Investing to Stay Ahead of Growing Demand for Wireless Calling, Data Access, and Music.

BLADES, DE — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for residents in Blades, Verizon Wireless has expanded its network with a new cell site. The new site increases coverage and capacity along Route 20 and Route 13.

The network expansion is part of an aggressive multi-billion dollar network investment each year (more than $1 billion every 90 days) to stay ahead of the growing demand for Verizon Wireless’ voice and data services. The company has spent more than $200 million to expand and enhance its wireless network across central, northeastern and southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware, bringing the network investment in the region to more than $1.2 billion since 2001. Nationally, the company has invested more than $50 billion - $5.5 billion on average every year - since it was formed to increase the coverage and capacity of its national network and to add new services, including wireless data services such as picture messaging and text messaging and the company’s exclusive V CAST service. V CAST brings video clips of TV shows, music on demand and other multimedia services to wireless phones over Verizon Wireless’ high-speed EV-DO network. Verizon Wireless’ high-speed third generation wireless broadband network has been enhanced with EV-DO Rev. A technology. This enhancement allows customers who use the company’s flagship business data service, Mobile Broadband, to interact with Web-based applications, download music over-the-air, access to e-mail, everyday corporate data, the Internet, and more at speeds that are eight to nine times faster than before. For example, Mobile Broadband customers with Rev. A compatible devices can now expect average download speeds of 600 kilobits per second (kbps) to 1.4 megabits per second and average upload speeds of 500-800 kbps, which means customers can download a 1 megabyte e-mail attachment - the equivalent of a small PowerPoint® presentation or a large PDF file - in about eight seconds and upload the same sized file in less than 13 seconds.

Strong demand for Verizon Wireless services continued during the fourth quarter of 2008 as the company added 1.4 million net new customers. For the 17th consecutive quarter, Verizon Wireless also led the wireless industry with an all-time high in customer loyalty. The company posted a churn (customer turnover) rate of just 1.35%, well below the rate reported by the other major wireless carriers.
Verizon Wireless tests its network and those of its competitors to ensure the Verizon Wireless network remains the Nation’s most reliable. Nationally, Verizon Wireless’ real-life test men and women drive more than 90 specially equipped vehicles more than 1 million miles annually on interstate, U.S. and state highways as well as major roads and surface streets in high-population areas, based upon U.S. Census counts, to determine if voice calls and data connections are successful on the first attempt and stay connected. Vehicles are equipped with computers that automatically make more than three million voice call attempts and more than 22 million data tests annually on Verizon Wireless’ network and the networks of other carriers.



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