From Zero to Billions: Verizon Wireless Turns Six

04/03/2006

BEDMINSTER, NJ -- As the wireless industry prepares for this week’s CTIA
Wireless 2006, the most important wireless technology event of the year, Verizon
Wireless is celebrating an important event of its own: the company’s six-year
anniversary.

Verizon Wireless first opened its doors on April 4, 2000 when text messages
numbered zero and customers still had “car phones.” Since that time, the company
has grown both internally and externally, adding more than 25,000 employees, 28
million customers and 900 Communications Stores.

Verizon Wireless also has expanded its product line-up to meet the changing
needs of wireless customers, offering text messaging, picture...
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