Verizon Wireless announced today that it has expanded its EV-DO service area to include the Greater Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y., region.
BroadbandAccess, cellular broadband service for laptops, and V CAST, its multimedia 3G entertainment service, will now be available.
The carrier also announced the greater Albany, N.Y., area will go live with the services later this week.
BroadbandAccess provides average access speeds of 400kbps -700kbps via a PC card that slides directly into most laptops. It also enables downloads of one-Megabyte e-mail attachments (the equivalent of a small PowerPoint presentation or a large PDF file) in about 20 seconds, the company said.
V CAST is a consumer-oriented multimedia service that offers music and video content on demand, including news, weather and sports updates, clips from popular TV programs, music videos, movie trailers, 3D games and more. With V CAST Music, customers can browse and download songs from the V CAST Music library directly onto their V CAST Music-enabled phone or Windows XP-enabled PC. The V CAST Music library contains more than 1.3 million songs.
Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess coverage expansion in the Buffalo-Niagara region includes the area roughly from Lockport to Hamburg, and from Lake Erie and the Niagara River to Pembroke. Buffalo-area customers traveling east along the Thruway now have BroadbandAccess and V CAST coverage all the way to Syracuse. Customers who travel outside a BroadbandAccess coverage area with an EV-DO device will switch seamlessly to Verizon Wireless existing NationalAccess network in which customers experience average data transmission speeds between 60kbps and 80kbps, with bursts up to 144kbps.
Verizon Wireless has invested $30 billion into its network in the last six years, $5 billion on average every year since 2000 when the company was formed to ensure network reliability and increase coverage and capacity.
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