Alex Coleman Named Vice President-Sales & Marketing Operations For Verizon Wireless,...

Alex Coleman Named Vice President-Sales & Marketing Operations For Verizon
Wireless, South Area

ALPHARETTA, Ga., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless, owner and operator
of the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and data network,
announced today that Alex Coleman has been named Vice President-Sales and
Marketing Operations for the company's South Area, which encompasses Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Coleman will be responsible for
all of the company's sales and marketing efforts in these states. He will be
based at the company's South Area Headquarters in Alpharetta, GA.

With nearly 22 years of telecommunications experience with Verizon and its
legacy companies, Coleman has held sales and marketing leadership positions of
increasing responsibility with the company including, group
president-Government & Education Channel, Verizon Business; vice
president-Sales, Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group; vice president/general
manager-Intelligent Network Services; and several key product marketing and
product development leadership positions.

"We are very excited to have Alex in this leadership role," says Jim McGean,
President-South Area for Verizon Wireless. "He brings a wealth of experience
to the job and I'm confident he'll help us continue to grow the business."

Coleman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
Technology from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless
voice and data network, serving more than 80 million customers. Headquartered
in Basking Ridge, N.J., with more than 85,000 employees nationwide, Verizon
Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone
(NYSE and LSE: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To
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SOURCE Verizon Wireless

Caran Smith, Verizon Wireless, +1-678-339-4891,
Caran.smith@verizonwireless.com