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Verizon Wireless Leads The Nation With Rural Expansion Of Nation's Largest 4G LTE Network NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless has bolstered its 4G LTE data service in Tennessee's rural areas so more Tennessee residents have access to mobile broadband speeds 10 times faster than 3G. Verizon Wireless added 34 4G LTE-enabled cellular towers in Tennessee since January 2013, and 78,492 additional people are now covered by the service in cities and towns...

Verizon Wireless Leads The Nation With Rural Expansion Of Nation's Largest 4G LTE Network RALEIGH, N.C., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless has bolstered its 4G LTE data service in North Carolina's rural areas so more North Carolina residents have access to mobile broadband speeds 10 times faster than 3G. Verizon Wireless added 140 4G LTE-enabled cellular towers in North Carolina since January 2013, and 305,414 additional people are now covered by the service in cities...

Verizon Wireless Leads The Nation With Rural Expansion Of Nation's Largest 4G LTE Network GREENVILLE, S.C., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless has bolstered its 4G LTE data service in South Carolina's rural areas so more South Carolina residents have access to mobile broadband speeds 10 times faster than 3G. Verizon Wireless added 108 4G LTE-enabled cellular towers in South Carolina since January 2013, and 221,169 additional people are now covered by the service in...

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WHO: Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation's largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network WHAT: Verizon Wireless recently activated new 4G LTE coverage on two sites in Orange County, expanding and filling in coverage on the high-speed data network it launched locally in November 2011. 4G LTE lets Verizon Wireless customers use their 4G LTE-enabled devices to surf...

CANBERRA, Australia, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the growing demand of its government and enterprise customers, Verizon has doubled the capacity of its Fyshwick data center in Canberra. Verizon now has more than 75,000 square feet of data center floor space in Australia, divided among centers in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. The Fyshwick expansion is the latest example of Verizon's ongoing investments to make advanced IT solutions available to global customers....

Latest Initiative Marks Third Consecutive Year the Two Companies Have Set Industry Records NEW YORK, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third consecutive year, Verizon and NEC Corporation of America announced they have set an industry record, this time by successfully sending the highest-capacity transmissions for regional and long-haul distances over field fiber. The achievement was accomplished by tightly packing optical channels in two bands of the optical fiber spectrum....

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online T-Mobile now carries one of the most popular smartphones in the world: the iPhone 5. To support this new phone, they’ve also introduced some generous service plans at cut-rate prices. So what’s a struggling fourth-place carrier to do next to win new subscribers? Ask for their old iPhones, of course. Big Pink announced today that they will extend their iPhone trade-in program and give credit to customers who are willing to...

Customers to benefit from nation's fastest 4G LTE network on the latest devices WILSON, N.C., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* has turned on the nation's fastest 4G LTE network** in Wilson, part of the company's LTE rollout today in the Wilson-Rocky Mount market, bringing customers the latest generation of wireless network technology. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGO) "With so many people increasingly relying on wireless devices to access the...

Independent research firm RootMetrics awards top spot to AT&T in recent wireless network performance test HAMPTON ROADS, Va., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* wireless customers in the Hampton Roads area are enjoying the network ranked highest for combined/overall voice, data and text performance by an independent mobile research and testing organization. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGO) Seattle-based RootMetrics(®) today released a...

Collaboration delivers superior video entertainment, blazingly fast Internet and 4G LTE mobile access at home and on the go CHANDLER, Ariz., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless and Cox Communications are teaming up to give consumers greater value and a new option for outstanding video, phone, Internet and wireless services in metro Phoenix and Southern Arizona, as well as Las Vegas. Qualified customers in Arizona can now purchase Cox Communications video, Internet and...