Verizon Wireless Customers In Greater Washington,

Verizon Wireless Customers In Greater Washington

Verizon Wireless customers in greater Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, as well as in Northern Virginia and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore can now access e-mail, everyday corporate data, the Internet and more at faster speeds, and upload files five to six times faster than before as Verizon Wireless rolls out the next-generation of its high-speed broadband network.

The area covered extends along Interstate-95 from Woodbridge, Va. to the border of Harford and Cecil Counties, Md. It includes most of Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax and Eastern Loudoun Counties as well as Washington, D.C., and most of Montgomery, Howard, Prince Georges, Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties. Coverage extends throughout greater Baltimore, to portions of Harford, Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Counties, and to portions of Maryland’s Eastern Shore including Cambridge, Easton, Salisbury and Ocean City.

Based on CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology, the enhanced wireless broadband network provides significantly faster data uplink speeds than the company’s award-winning national EV-DO network rolled out in 2003 in Washington and Baltimore.

With the new Rev. A network enhancements, the company’s flagship business data service, BroadbandAccess, will provide average download speeds of 450-800 kilobits per second (kbps) and average upload speeds of 300-400 kbps. The improved speeds translate to downloading a 1 Megabyte e-mail attachment – such as a small PowerPoint® presentation or a large PDF file – in less than 15 seconds, and uploading the same size file in less than 25 seconds.

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