Verizon Wireless Priority Service (WPS) Info

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Verizon Wireless announced Wireless Priority Service (WPS), a federal program that will provide the benefit of priority network access for National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) officials that must have communications capabilities in times of emergency.

Beginning this month, WPS will be available to Verizon Wireless subscribers in Washington, DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia and Chicago, Ill., and select counties in LA and Southern Florida. Verizon Wireless will continue to add additional markets until the rollout is complete at the end of 2006. Verizon Wireless is working with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a National Communications System (NCS) integration contractor for the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service to provide WPS. Verizon Wireless first announced the contract with Computer Sciences Corporation in September 2005 to provide WPS.

During times of emergency, WPS will give emergency service personnel - including federal, state and local government officials, law enforcement agencies and designated private sector responders - priority in placing calls. While priority calls do not preempt calls in progress, WPS will allow authorized users to gain priority access to the next available wireless channel, thereby increasing their probability of call completion during an emergency. Calls placed by individuals without priority access will still be given access to the network.

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