27th Sep 2006 12:00
Good news for Boise wireless users who feel the need for speed. £ Verizon Wireless has rolled out its wireless broadband serviceacross the metro area, giving local customers access to the latesthigh-speed business and entertainment services on their wirelessphones, laptop computers and other wireless devices. Boise is thefirst city in Idaho to join the company's heralded coast-to-coastwireless broadband network, now covering more than half the populationof the U.S. £ With this launch, Verizon Wireless customers in Boise are able toaccess the company's two premier wireless broadband services -BroadbandAccess and V CAST - while traveling throughout the greatermetropolitan area. £ BroadbandAccess £ BroadbandAccess is the company's high-speed wireless broadbandnetwork geared toward mobile professionals and business customers. Itprovides average access speeds of 400-700 kilobits per second (kbps).The service gives customers the ability to connect to the Internetusing a PC card that slides directly into most laptop computers andenables a download of a 1 Megabyte e-mail attachment (the equivalentof a small PowerPoint(R) presentation or a large PDF file) in about 20seconds. Customers can also connect through cards that are embedded asan integrated option on select notebook computers from Dell (Latitude620 and 820), Lenovo (ThinkPad Z60, T60 and X60) and HP (Compaqnc6140); or by connecting a BroadbandAccess-capable handset to mostlaptops. £ V CAST £ V CAST, the nation's first broadband multimedia service forconsumers, offers music and video content on demand, including news,weather and sports updates, clips from popular TV programs, musicvideos, movie trailers, 3D games and more. With V CAST Music,customers can browse and download songs from the V CAST Music libraryof 1.4 million songs directly onto their V CAST Music-enabled phone orWindows(R) XP-enabled PC. They can also transfer music from their PCto their handset to enjoy on the go. £ Both services are based on the company's Evolution-Data Optimized(EV-DO) network technology. £ "The Boise expansion is part of our continuing focus on deliveringthe best possible wireless experience to customers, across the countryand right here in Idaho," said Jeff Mango, president of VerizonWireless' Mountain Region. "With BroadbandAccess, our businesscustomers will now be able to take their desktop experience with them,allowing them to wirelessly access their Microsoft Outlook(R)calendars, the Internet, e-mail and critical business informationresiding behind corporate firewalls. With V CAST, consumers now haveaccess to the most comprehensive selection of downloadable music,high-quality videos and the coolest 3D games found anywhere." £ Coverage £ Verizon Wireless' broadband network coverage expansion in Idahospans eight communities: Boise, Caldwell, Eagle, Garden City, Kuna,Meridian, Middleton and Nampa. Greater Boise-area customers travelingalong I-84 from Caldwell to the Micron campus will also haveBroadbandAccess and V CAST coverage. Customers who travel outside aBroadbandAccess coverage area with an EV-DO device will switchseamlessly to Verizon Wireless' existing NationalAccess network inwhich customers experience average data transmission speeds between 60and 80 kbps, with bursts up to 144 kbps. £ The company has invested more than $68 million in Idaho in thepast four years - part of its $30 billion nationwide networkinvestment over the last six years - to ensure network reliability andexpanded coverage. £ BroadbandAccess and V CAST pricing and product informationavailable at www.verizonwireless.com. £ About Verizon Wireless £ Verizon Wireless owns and operates the nation's most reliablewireless network, serving 54.8 million voice and data customers.Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., Verizon Wireless is a jointventure of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE:VOD)(LSE:VOD). Find more information on the Web atwww.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-qualityvideo footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wirelessoperations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library atwww.verizonwireless.com/multimedia. Copyright Business Wire 2006Related Shares:
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