HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless has activated two new cell sites and added capacity to 33 existing cell sites in south central Pennsylvania, increasing network coverage in Franklin and Adams counties and enhancing capacity in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties.
The network upgrades enable more customers to use their wireless phones to make calls, send and receive email and text, picture and video messages, and download games and ringtones.
One new cell site, located in Franklin County on U.S. Route 15 north of Gettysburg, improves in-building coverage and capacity within the town. The other new cell site, located in Adams County on State Route 30 east of Fayetteville, improves network coverage north of Gettysburg along U.S. Route 15 northeast to State Route 394 in the town of Shrivers Corners and along U.S. Route 30 from Fayetteville east to State Route 997.
Network capacity also is improved in the following areas:
-- Chestnut Hill, McSherrytown and New Oxford in Adams County;
-- Camp Hill and Mechanicsburg in Cumberland County;
-- East along State Route 283 from the Schoolhouse Road exit to State
Route 743 in Dauphin County;
-- Brunnersville, Columbia, East Petersburg, Elizabethtown, Landisville,
Lititz, Manheim, Neffsville and Salunga in Lancaster County;
-- Lebanon in Lebanon County;
-- Duncannon, Loysville, Marysville, New Bloomfield, Newport and
Shermansdale in Perry County;
-- Hanover, West York and Wrightsville in York County.
"Verizon Wireless is committed to improving our premier wireless voice and data network," said Roger Tang, president-Ohio/Pennsylvania Region, Verizon Wireless. "Our customers join us and stay with us because they are confident they'll receive reliable service."
Reliable service is fundamental to customer loyalty, and Verizon Wireless boasts the highest customer loyalty in the industry. During the second quarter of 2006, only 1.1 percent of its customers disconnected their service, which is well below the industry average.
These recent enhancements in south central Pennsylvania are part of Verizon Wireless' continuous effort to increase capacity and enhance the quality of its wireless voice and data network in Pennsylvania and across the country. Verizon Wireless has invested $30 billion in the last six years - $5 billion on average every year since the company was formed - to increase the coverage and capacity of its national network and to add new services. More than $240 million of this investment was spent in Pennsylvania in 2005.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless owns and operates the nation's most reliable wireless network, serving 54.8 million voice and data customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone . Find more information on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com/. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
