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Take Skype mobile(TM) on Verizon Wireless Back to School With You
App Now on Select 3G Multimedia Phones Enables Unlimited Skype-to-Skype Calls Around the World
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 18 -- As college students hunker down for the fall semester, Verizon Wireless now offers Skype mobile(TM) on many 3G Multimedia phones, making it easy to affordably stay connected with friends and family. The LG enV® TOUCH, LG Chocolate Touch(TM) and Samsung Reality(TM) join Verizon Wireless' strong lineup of 3G Smartphones that already feature Skype mobile.
Skype mobile helps students on a budget stay in touch, whether they're starting at a new school or returning as upperclassmen. Skype mobile also offers a simple, convenient and cost-effective way for parents to keep up with their kids who venture overseas for a term abroad, eliminating the need to set a time to be at a computer to receive the Skype call from junior.
-- Bon Voyage - If students need help preparing for their time abroad
before they go, they can use Skype mobile to talk with professors
about how to balance studies and travel. Skype mobile also offers
language support in Spanish, Korean and simple Chinese, helping
students keep in touch with new international friends after they
return home.
-- Close Quarters - Living in a dorm room with a stranger can be
nerve-racking, but students can use Skype mobile to get to know future
roommates, making the transition to dorm life easier. Whether they
want to plan the dorm room décor or bond over favorite movies, Skype
mobile lets them chat for hours and become fast friends.
-- Dark or White? - Calculus class? Check. Biochemistry test? Aced it.
How to separate dark and white loads? For some students laundry is
stressful. When a terrible stain hits a favorite shirt, students can
use Skype mobile to call home for laundry expertise until the spot is
only a memory.
-- Don't Let Summer Love Fade Away - Maintaining a relationship while
apart is tough, but with an "always on" capability, Skype mobile means
students never have to miss a call while away from their computers.
-- B.F.F. - Making friends at a new school is important, but staying in
touch with friends from home is too. Best friends can send and
receive unlimited instant messages with other Skype users to stay
close no matter how far away from each other they may be.
-- Wisdom of Age - Students living away from home for the first time may
need some survival tips from older siblings. Knowledge from a big
brother or sister is easy with unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls
via Skype mobile.
Skype-to-Skype calls and chats are unlimited when initiated with Skype mobile from a Verizon Wireless phone with a data plan to any of the hundreds of millions of Skype users anywhere in the world. The calls run on the United States' largest and most reliable wireless voice network, providing outstanding call quality and allowing the app to work with traditional voice products, including Bluetooth® headsets. Skype mobile calls made to domestic landline and wireless numbers use minutes from customers' voice plans. Skype mobile calls to international numbers do not use customers' voice plans and are paid for by Skype Credit and charged at Skype's low international rates.
Customers with Android smartphones can download the highly rated app from the Verizon Channel in Android Market(TM), and customers with select BlackBerry® smartphones can download it from http://www.skype.com/vzw through their smartphones' browser. For 3G Multimedia phones, customers can download the app from Media Center/Get It Now® or the online media store at http://www.verizonwireless.com/mp3. Customers can also text "SKYPE" to 2255 to get a message with the link to download Skype mobile.
For more information on Skype mobile, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com/skypemobile. For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to http://www.verizonwireless.com.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 92 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 79,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ)(NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD). For more information, visit 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.
The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
Source: Verizon Wireless
CONTACT: Debra Lewis, Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7512,
Debra.Lewis@verizonwireless.com
Web Site: http://www.verizonwireless.com/
Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/094251.html
Take Skype mobile(TM) on Verizon Wireless Back to School With You
App Now on Select 3G Multimedia Phones Enables Unlimited Skype-to-Skype Calls Around the World
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 18 -- As college students hunker down for the fall semester, Verizon Wireless now offers Skype mobile(TM) on many 3G Multimedia phones, making it easy to affordably stay connected with friends and family. The LG enV® TOUCH, LG Chocolate Touch(TM) and Samsung Reality(TM) join Verizon Wireless' strong lineup of 3G Smartphones that already feature Skype mobile.
Skype mobile helps students on a budget stay in touch, whether they're starting at a new school or returning as upperclassmen. Skype mobile also offers a simple, convenient and cost-effective way for parents to keep up with their kids who venture overseas for a term abroad, eliminating the need to set a time to be at a computer to receive the Skype call from junior.
-- Bon Voyage - If students need help preparing for their time abroad
before they go, they can use Skype mobile to talk with professors
about how to balance studies and travel. Skype mobile also offers
language support in Spanish, Korean and simple Chinese, helping
students keep in touch with new international friends after they
return home.
-- Close Quarters - Living in a dorm room with a stranger can be
nerve-racking, but students can use Skype mobile to get to know future
roommates, making the transition to dorm life easier. Whether they
want to plan the dorm room décor or bond over favorite movies, Skype
mobile lets them chat for hours and become fast friends.
-- Dark or White? - Calculus class? Check. Biochemistry test? Aced it.
How to separate dark and white loads? For some students laundry is
stressful. When a terrible stain hits a favorite shirt, students can
use Skype mobile to call home for laundry expertise until the spot is
only a memory.
-- Don't Let Summer Love Fade Away - Maintaining a relationship while
apart is tough, but with an "always on" capability, Skype mobile means
students never have to miss a call while away from their computers.
-- B.F.F. - Making friends at a new school is important, but staying in
touch with friends from home is too. Best friends can send and
receive unlimited instant messages with other Skype users to stay
close no matter how far away from each other they may be.
-- Wisdom of Age - Students living away from home for the first time may
need some survival tips from older siblings. Knowledge from a big
brother or sister is easy with unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls
via Skype mobile.
Skype-to-Skype calls and chats are unlimited when initiated with Skype mobile from a Verizon Wireless phone with a data plan to any of the hundreds of millions of Skype users anywhere in the world. The calls run on the United States' largest and most reliable wireless voice network, providing outstanding call quality and allowing the app to work with traditional voice products, including Bluetooth® headsets. Skype mobile calls made to domestic landline and wireless numbers use minutes from customers' voice plans. Skype mobile calls to international numbers do not use customers' voice plans and are paid for by Skype Credit and charged at Skype's low international rates.
Customers with Android smartphones can download the highly rated app from the Verizon Channel in Android Market(TM), and customers with select BlackBerry® smartphones can download it from http://www.skype.com/vzw through their smartphones' browser. For 3G Multimedia phones, customers can download the app from Media Center/Get It Now® or the online media store at http://www.verizonwireless.com/mp3. Customers can also text "SKYPE" to 2255 to get a message with the link to download Skype mobile.
For more information on Skype mobile, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com/skypemobile. For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to http://www.verizonwireless.com.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 92 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 79,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ)(NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD). For more information, visit 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.
The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
Source: Verizon Wireless
CONTACT: Debra Lewis, Verizon Wireless, +1-908-559-7512,
Debra.Lewis@verizonwireless.com
Web Site: http://www.verizonwireless.com/
Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/094251.html