Verizon Wireless Adds Baja California Cellular Roaming Access.Business Editors/Travel Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2000 Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. Customers in Southern California Can Use Their Cellular Phones for Affordable Calls to and from Baja California Verizon Wireless customers in Southern California can now use their cellular phones in Baja California, reports Nick Montes mon·tes n. Plural of mons. , Manager of Hispanic Marketing for Verizon Wireless. The company's new Baja roaming service allows customers to place and receive calls in major cities throughout Baja California, from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas Cabo San Lucas (popularly known as just Cabo) is a small city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula at , in the municipality of Los Cabos in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico. . "Our customers have asked for cellular access in Baja California, so we developed a roaming agreement with a Mexico-based wireless provider to enable us to offer this service at a competitive rate of 60 cents per minute, plus long distance charges," says Montes. "With all the golf resorts, fishing opportunities, and other attractions in Baja, more and more people are traveling south of the border for weekend or vacation getaways. And of course many of our customers have family and friends living in Baja California. Now they can enjoy the convenience and safety of using their Verizon Wireless cellular phones for personal and business calls within Baja as well as to the United States. All our customers need to do is contact Customer Care for activation," he adds. About Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S., with more than 25 million wireless voice and data customers and nearly 4 million paging customers. The new coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BEL), Vodafone AirTouch Plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand )(NYSE:VOD), and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Corp. (NYSE:GTE). The new company includes the assets of Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular, GTE Wireless, PrimeCo Personal Communications and AirTouch Paging. The new company has a footprint covering nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 96 of the top 100 U.S. markets. Verizon Wireless, headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Bedminster, N.J., is 30,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information about the company in its Media Center on the Web at: http://www.verizonwireless.com/mediacenter. Editor's Note Verizon Wireless, formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp., Vodafone AirTouch Plc, and GTE Corp., incorporates the former AirTouch Cellular properties in Southern California. |
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