Verizon Wireless makes $290 million enhancement to Texas network
Wireless network provider Verizon Wireless is making an investment in the state of Texas.
The company, based in Bedminster, N.J., has completed more than $290 million worth of enhancements to its Texas voice and data wireless network this year.
The Verizon Wireless upgrades include adding and updating cell sites and other technology to improve call quality, increase coverage areas, and allow for a variety of advanced services such as wireless broadband computing, text and video messaging and other applications.
According to the company, Verizon Wireless has expanded its BroadbandAccesssm EV-DO high-speed wireless broadband network in Texas significantly, upgrading more than 460 cell sites in the state's major metropolitan areas including Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston and Beaumont.
Verizon Wireless' Texas network upgrades in 2005 include:
The launch of the BroadbandAccess EV-DO high-speed wireless network in San Antonio and Beaumont, as well as the upgrading of hundreds of existing sites across Texas, including one in the Texas State Capitol building. The technology allows high-speed downloads of video, games and music on the Verizon Wireless V CAST service, plus pictures, text and other data onto devices such as phones, laptops and personal digital assistants.
The addition of more than 130 new cell sites.
The upgrade of more than 500 existing sites with components to handle the newest digital wireless technologies, including high-speed wireless broadband services.
In addition to improving new services, the Verizon Wireless network investment is designed to enhance communities' public safety capabilities.
Verizon Wireless has invested more than $1 billion in its Gulf Coast wireless network in the past six years, including more than $180 million on the Gulf Coast network in 2004 and an estimated $220 million in 2005. |
