Verizon Wireless to Launch `3G' Technology in Florida

date: April 2, 2002

Verizon Wireless announced the launch of its high-speed wireless service in Florida, offering customers faster, easier wireless Internet access and email capabilities, as well as enhanced phone and streaming video quality. Verizon Wireless' Express Network is the U.S. industry's first commercially available, third-generation (3G) wireless network. It supports enterprise applications, promising to give companies with mobile employees new tools for increased productivity and efficiency.

The first areas in the state to tap into the 3G network are South Florida, from West Palm Beach to Miami, Key West, and the Tampa Bay and Lakeland regions. The service will be available to business customers April 2 and general consumers April 15. In the near future, Express Network will be launched in Orlando and Jacksonville.

"The roll-out of our Express Network in Florida represents a new day for wireless communications in the Sunshine State," said Mike Lanman, Florida region president for Verizon Wireless. "Wireless data is only as good as the network it's on, and the premier Verizon Wireless network, already the most advanced in Florida, just took another giant step ahead of its competitors."

The Verizon Wireless Express Network will give users full Internet and intranet access, and traditional email functionality via a laptop at unprecedented speeds for wireless connections. Users should expect average speeds between 40 and 60 kilobytes per second, about three times faster than most current networks and comparable to what PC users get when using a dial-up modem over a landline.

"The Verizon Wireless Express Network service promises to do for mobile communications what DSL and the cable modem has done for the home and office PC," said Lanman. "South Florida and Tampa mobile customers right now will be able to experience the wireless world in a completely new way."

Express Network is also available in the Northeast (from Norfolk, VA to Washington, DC), Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Portland, San Francisco/Silicon Valley area; Salt Lake City, Portland, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas and Houston. Express Network capabilities are now available in more than 20 percent of the Verizon Wireless footprint, reaching more than 53 million Americans.

Express Network business customers and individual consumers can take advantage of high wireless data speeds and Internet access by using the new Verizon Wireless 2235 handset from Kyocera with a compatible Mobile Office kit as a modem for their laptops, or by using the AirCard 555 PC card from Sierra Wireless, for their laptops and select PDAs.

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