Network Leadership

Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless voice and data network, serving more than 80 million customers. Verizon Wireless continues to lead the industry by offering the highest quality products and services while introducing innovative technology solutions.

Network-Powered Services and Features

Verizon Wireless Mobile Broadband - Based on CDMA EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) technology

• Verizon Wireless, the first to build a national wireless broadband network, launched Mobile Broadband in October 2003 and announced a national rollout in January 2004.
• Offering wireless Internet connections at broadband-like speeds.
• In February 2007, Verizon Wireless launched its next-generation high-speed wireless broadband network, based on CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology, in cities throughout the country, giving customers the ability to upload files eight to nine times faster than before, giving them faster access to e-mail, everyday corporate data, the Internet and more.
• Mobile Broadband customers in enhanced broadband wireless coverage areas can expect average download speeds of 600 kilobits per second (kbps) to 1.4 megabits and average upload speeds of 500-800 kbps. The company’s 3G (third generation) network -- the nation’s largest and most reliable-- now covers more than 274 million people after the Alltel acquisition.

V CAST - Also based on CDMA EV-DO technology, V CAST is the nation's first consumer wireless broadband multimedia service.

• V CAST from Verizon Wireless brings high-quality video, 3D games and music straight to hot new phones.
• Currently available in all markets where Mobile Broadband is offered.

V CAST Music with Rhapsody - Launched in June 2008, V CAST Music with Rhapsody is a monthly subscription service combining the company's world-class mobile music service with Rhapsody's leading desktop music solution.

• V CAST Music with Rhapsody gives customers access to 5 million songs for $14.99 monthly access.
• When customers download the V CAST Music with Rhapsody Software to their PCs and sign up for the monthly subscription, they have the ultimate music management service, including:

            - Creating and accessing playlists, viewing playlists of other users, including celebrities

            - Burning, importing and converting CDs to play anywhere

            - Managing an existing digital music collection for free and syncing it to their mobile phones

            - Buying non-protected MP3s of songs on the PC for 99 cents per song

            - Buying songs on the phone, over-the-air--get two copies of the song for just $1.99 (one is over-the-air,
            the second master copy is the file customers download onto their PCs)

• Customers with V CAST Music-capable phones can download music over the air using the Verizon Wireless broadband network directly to their wireless phones, and to their Windows XP PCs, and can transfer new and existing digital music from the PC to their wireless phone.
• V CAST Song ID lets customers identify music playing on a radio or any music source, purchase and download the ringtone, ringback tone and full track.
  

NationalAccess- based on 1XRTT technology, provides wireless data services at speeds of 60-80 kbps.

Nationwide TXT Messaging - a two-way short messaging service

• In Q4 2008, Verizon Wireless customers sent or received more than 90 billion text messages through its network.

Picture Messaging - an intuitive service, requiring just a few easy clicks to take and send a photo

• Between October and December 2008, customers exchanged 1.8 billion picture and video messages over Verizon Wireless' nationwide network.