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Verizon Wireless Introduces Mobile Messenger(SM) to Puget Sound Markets
URL(s): Verizon
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless customers in
Puget Sound area communities, including Bellingham, Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma
and Olympia, now have access to Mobile Messenger(SM), the company's new
two-way text messaging service.
Verizon Wireless customers coast-to-coast can join in an emerging
communications craze -- staying in touch easily and quietly by swapping
messages via their digital wireless handsets.
Mobile Messenger is fun, fast, discreet and inexpensive. It increases the
utility of wireless handsets by giving consumers two choices in how they use
their phones to communicate: talk and text. Messages can be sent from
another Verizon Wireless two-way messaging-capable handset, any Internet
e-mail address or from http://www.msg.myvzw.com.
Customers can send and receive short 120 character messages quickly with
Mobile Messenger by just tapping the keypad. Mobile Messenger offers a way to
keep in touch with others whether in the movies, at the mall, in a restaurant,
or in a meeting.
"Swapping messages via wireless handsets is quickly catching on as users
get accustomed to the convenience, flexibility and enjoyment two-way text
messaging offers," said Kelley Kurtzman, Verizon Wireless' regional president
in the Pacific Northwest. "Mobile Messenger is fun and functional, giving
users the ability to keep in touch without having a long conversation."
There's no need to subscribe to the service, since Verizon Wireless
customers with two-way text messaging-capable phones can just "pay as they go"
with Mobile Messenger. Verizon Wireless is currently offering seven phones
with Mobile Messenger capabilities: Kyocera QCP 2035a, Nokia 5185i,
Audiovox 9100 and 135, Motorola 120c and v60, and LG 510.
For messaging enthusiasts, the company also offers two Mobile Messenger
packages, one priced at $2.99 for 100 received or sent messages; and the
second priced at $7.99 for 600 received or sent messages. Additional messages
sent cost just 10 cents and received messages cost 2 cents per message.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the
U.S. with 28 million wireless voice and data customers. The new
coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the
U.S. wireless businesses of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp -- now Verizon
Communications (NYSE: VZ) -- and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD; London). The new
company includes the assets of Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular, GTE
Wireless and PrimeCo Personal Communications. The company has a footprint
covering nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 97 of
the top 100 U.S. markets. Verizon Wireless, headquartered in Bedminster, NJ,
is 40,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information
about the company on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com .
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