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Verizon Wireless Debuts Nation's First Consumer Broadband -- Video on Demand -- Service for Cell Phones & Fastest Wireless Internet Service in Seattle/Puget Sound Today.


SEATTLE Seattle (sēăt`əl), city (1990 pop. 516,259), seat of King co., W Wash., built on seven hills, between Elliott Bay of Puget Sound and Lake Washington; inc. 1869.  -- 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. :

--Demonstration of Mobile Phones that Play TV Show clips & News, Sports, Movie Trailers, Music Videos, 3-D Games -- and High Speed Wireless Websurfing on Laptops.

--Demonstration Cities: Seattle, Tacoma Tacoma (təkō`mə), city (1990 pop. 176,664), seat of Pierce co., W Wash., on Commencement Bay and Puget Sound at the mouth of the Puyallup River; inc. 1884. , Issaquah, Everett Everett.

1 City (1990 pop. 35,701), Middlesex co., E Mass., an industrial suburb of Boston, on the Mystic River; settled c.1643, set off from Malden 1870, inc. as a city 1892.
, Olympia Olympia, city, ancient Greece
Olympia, ancient city, important center of the worship of Zeus in ancient Greece, in Elis near the Alpheus (now Alfiós) R. It was the scene of the Olympic games.
 & Bellingham Bellingham (bĕl`ĭnghăm'), city (1990 pop. 52,179), seat of Whatcom co., NW Wash., a port of entry on Bellingham Bay, one of the best harbors on the U.S. Pacific coast, near Canada; inc. 1904.  
Media Demonstration of New Products

WHO:      Data subject matter expert

WHAT:     Demonstration and hands-on trials of Verizon Wireless'
          V CAST service, which enables consumers to download and view
          video content (up to 5 minutes) on-demand and play
          cutting-edge 3D games.  Consumers can easily view current
          news, weather, sports and entertainment programming on their
          mobile phones, Choices include movie trailers, music videos,
          concert performances, short video programs specifically
          designed for mobile phones and other video content from
          providers such as CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX, ESPN, FOX Sports,
          MarketWatch, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and more.

WHEN:     10:00 AM-2:00 PM Thursday, June 23, 2005

WHERE:    Seattle: 1633 6th Ave, downtown 206-940-0385
          Tacoma: 4009 Tacoma Mall Blvd. 253-475-8639
          Issaquah: 690 NW Gilman Blvd. 206-795-3940
          Everett: 1405 Everett Mall Way 425-861-4963
          Olympia: 625 Black Lake Blvd. - Capitol Mall 360-790-9277
          Bellingham: One Bellis Fair Parkway (Bellis Fair Mall)
                      Suite #124 360-647-7909

WHY:      Verizon Wireless today announced the rollout of two
          award-winning services in greater Seattle -- one developed
          for the consumer market, the other primarily for business
          customers. V CAST, the nation's first wireless broadband
          multimedia service for consumers, and BroadbandAccess, the
          fastest wide-area wireless Internet access service available
          in the nation, are both available today from Bellingham to
          Olympia. Both services run on the company's high-speed
          EV-DO (Evolution Data-Optimized) wireless broadband network,
          which is now available from coast to coast. In 2004, Verizon
          Wireless invested $92 million in network enhancements in
          Washington State. Enhancements in 2005 include expansion of
          the Verizon Wireless digital network to include Yakima, the
          Tri-Cities, Ellensburg, Walla Walla, Clarkston & Pullman --
          completed on June 7th.

VISUALS:  State-of-the-art broadband-capable phones and aircards.
          Content menu on phones, video images on phones and rapid
          webpage downloads on laptops.
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