Verizon Wireless Launches Faster New Wireless Broadband Network

Verizon Wireless Enhances Wireless Broadband Network with EV-DO Revision A Technology

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless provider, today announced it is launching its next-generation high-speed wireless broadband network in cities throughout the country, giving customers the ability to upload files five to six times faster than before, giving them faster access to e-mail, everyday corporate data, the Internet and more. Based on CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology, the network enhancements will launch initially in Mass., including Boston and its suburbs, the Richmond and Hampton Roads, Va. areas, Chicago and its suburbs and including Gary, Ind., Salt Lake City and other cities in Utah, as well as in Florida throughout the state's entire existing area of Verizon Wireless' wireless broadband network.  Verizon Wireless customers in those areas will have data uplink speeds significantly faster than the company's award-winning national EV-DO network.