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Debra Lewis
Debra.Lewis@verizonwireless.com  
908-559-7512

Jeffrey Nelson
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917-968-9175

07/19/2007

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless today released the following statement on the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction:

“We remain guided in our principled belief that open and fair auctions serve everybody best: consumers, innovators, U.S. taxpayers. To rig the 700 MHz auction in any way – to limit its value and potential to deliver exciting new products and services – would be a huge disservice to the nation. Corporate welfare for Google is bad public policy.”

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