Spreading New Year’s wishes is more fun with text, picture and video messages from Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company withthe nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network. This New Year’s Eve, Verizon Wireless expects its customers to send and receive more than 300 million messages in the 16 hours between 12 p.m. today and 4 a.m. ET New Year’s Day.

Verizon Wireless currently offers more than two dozen phones that allow customers to send and receive text, picture and video messages, including
two of this year’s holiday favorites — the Venus(TM) and Voyager(TM) by
LG. During the third quarter of 2007, customers exchanged more than 721
million picture and video messages over Verizon Wireless’ nationwide
network and sent or received nearly 36.5 billion text messages. In June
2007, Verizon Wireless customers helped the company set an industry record– more than 10 billion text messages were exchanged in a single month.