TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Verizon Wireless Completes $330 Million Enhancement

Re: Verizon Wireless Completes $330 Million Enhancement

Tony P. (kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net)
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:19:09 -0500

In article <telecom24.19.5@telecom-digest.org>, monty@roscom.com says:

> Verizon Wireless Completes $330 Million Enhancement to New
> England Network in 2004
> - Jan 13, 2005 01:01 PM (PR Newswire)

> Major Investments, Upgrades To Continue In 2005

> WOBURN, Mass., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless, operator of
> the nation's most reliable network, has completed a $330 million
> investment for 2004 to further enhance the company's network in New
> England. The multi- million dollar annual investment included
> updating cell sites and other technology to improve call quality,
> increase coverage areas, and allow a variety of advanced services such
> as wireless broadband computing, text and video messaging and other
> applications.

> - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=46192265

Sure -- but there is one problem that nobody seems to want to bring up.

My boss is thrilled that he's getting 384Kbps on his Treo 650 but
there is one vexing problem that both he and I run into with our
Verizon phones.

Several times per week you'll punch in a number, press send and watch
the display on your phone do its little dance but never be connected.
Press end, dial again and press send and the same song and dance.

They are over-subscribed in the metro areas of New England.

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