OUTER BANKS NORTH CAROLINA GET HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS NETWORK.

Verizon Wireless customers in North Carolina's Outer Banks and Elizabeth City can now access e-mail, everyday corporate data, the Internet and more at faster speeds, download video and music directly to their wireless phones and play 3D games as the company rolls out its wireless high-speed broadband network. The company's wireless broadband network allows customers to access BroadbandAccess on their laptops, e-mail on their PDAs, and V CAST Video and Music on their wireless phones.

The wireless broadband network coverage area extends to 29 cell sites in the Outer Banks and Elizabeth City areas. Based on CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A technology, the wireless broadband network provides Verizon Wireless customers from Hatteras to Duck, as well as in Ahoskie and in Murfreesboro, N.C., with data uplink speeds significantly faster using the company's award-winning national EV-DO network.

"This expansion is part of our continuing focus on investing in our network reliability and providing innovative high-speed data services to our customers," said Tami Erwin, Verizon Wireless regional president. "With BroadbandAccess, mobile professionals and students can now take their desktop experience wherever they go in the coverage area, allowing them to wirelessly access their Outlook(R) calendars, the Internet, e-mail and other critical information."

BroadbandAccess Speeds

The company's flagship business data service, BroadbandAccess, provides average download speeds of 600 kilobits per second (kbps) to 1.4 megabits 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(R) presentation or a large PDF file -- in about eight seconds and upload, or send, the same-sized file in less than 13 seconds. Verizon Wireless' BroadbandAccess service allows customers to download files approximately 10 times faster than customers of other wireless service providers that use different broadly deployed network technologies.

V CAST: Video and Music

The company's high-speed network also enables its V CAST multimedia services, offering customers the ability to download full song tracks, play cutting-edge 3D games and stream video clips straight to their phones. With content updated daily, customers can watch dozens of on-demand videos, including breaking news, weather, sports highlights, and the hottest entertainment clips. With V CAST Music, Verizon Wireless has built a massive full-song mobile music store that contains more than 2.1 million songs from well-known and independent artists that customers can download right onto their V CAST Music-enabled phones.

For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com or call 240/568-1429.