Verizon Wireless 'COW' Offers Enhanced Coverage for Penn State's Nittany Lions

Cell On Wheels Will Boost Call Capacity for PSU Football Fans

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless is installing a
temporary cell site--called a COW, or Cell On Wheels--near Penn State
University's Beaver Stadium to provide additional network coverage and calling
capacity just in time for football season. This service enhancement means that
more customers can use the Verizon Wireless network concurrently to make calls
or using data applications such as text, picture and video messaging during
home football games.

"Penn State University's Beaver Stadium is the second-largest stadium in the
nation with a capacity for more than 107,000 fans, and home game attendance
records are consistently being broken," said Roger Tang-president,
Ohio/Pennsylvania/West Virginia Region, Verizon Wireless. "Our COW enables us
to meet the increase in call volume during this football season and to
continue to offer our customers the reliable network service they've come to
expect."

The COW is a fully functional, generator-powered cell site, which has the same
call capacity as a freestanding cell site. This network improvement is part of
Verizon Wireless' continual effort to expand coverage, improve capacity and
enhance the quality of its wireless voice and data network in Pennsylvania and
throughout the country.

Verizon Wireless has invested more than $50 billion since it was formed--$5.5
billion on average every year--to increase the coverage and capacity of its
premier nationwide network and to add new services. Over the past 18 months,
the company has invested nearly $330 million in its Pennsylvania network.

About Verizon Wireless
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voice and data network, serving 87.7 million customers. Headquartered in
Basking Ridge, N.J., with more than 87,000 employees nationwide, Verizon
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SOURCE Verizon Wireless

Laura Merritt of Verizon Wireless, +1-614-345-3210,
laura.merritt@verizonwireless.com, or Jennifer Schmitt for Verizon Wireless,
+1-412-642-7700, jennifer.schmitt@elias-savion.com