Metro Atlanta Wireless Broadband Network Expands From Gainesville to Griffin

Verizon Wireless today announced an expansion of the company's metro Atlanta Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) network, essentially making the Atlanta market an almost 3,000 square mile "mega hot spot" of high-speed wireless broadband coverage. The EV-DO network expansion includes further growth in Gainesville and new service in Griffin, Ga., giving customers in those areas, and everywhere in between, seamless access to the latest high-speed business and entertainment services on their wireless phones, laptop computers and other wireless devices.

With typical connection speeds of 400-700 kilobits per second (kbps), said Verizon in a release, the high-speed services -- BroadbandAccess and V CAST -- "delivers the fastest commercially available high-speed wide-area wireless Internet access service in the nation."

The continued expansion is part of the company's ongoing network investment. In the month of October, the company launched BroadbandAccess in six new Georgia markets including Albany, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Warner Robins and Savannah. To date in 2006, Verizon Wireless has invested more than $160 million in the expansion and enhancement of its network in Georgia and Alabama.
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