Verizon Celebrates Asian Heritage Month at Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival on May 6

Festival-Goers Will Have Chance to Compete in an Interactive Game That Will

Test Their Knowledge of Asian Culture

    NEW YORK, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate Asian heritage month at
 the annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, Verizon will give
 festival- goers a chance to showcase their knowledge of Asian culture by
 competing in an interactive game, "The Verizon Asianology Challenge." The
 game will be featured at the Verizon booth at Union Square on Sunday (May
 6) from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., and the champion will receive a Nintendo Wii
 game console.
     At the festival, booth visitors can also experience and learn about
 Verizon's most popular broadband and wireless services and take advantage
 of special onsite promotions; enter the Verizon booth raffle to win a
 Verizon Wireless phone; and take pictures with friends and family at the
 Verizon photo booth.
     "We recognize that Asian culture is an integral piece of our community.
 That's why Verizon has been a long supporter of events like the APA
 Heritage Festival," said Jeff McFarland, director of multicultural
 marketing for Verizon.
     Lisa Harrison, group manager of Asian marketing for Verizon, said,
 "There's no better way to commemorate Asian Heritage month than by testing
 your Asian trivia knowledge. 'The Verizon Asianology Challenge' is a great
 way to interact and engage with the community."
     The two-round challenge will be open to people of all ages. In the
 first round, three contestants at a time will compete. The first person to
 answer five Asian trivia questions correctly will move on to the second
 round. In that round, contestants must answer 10 questions correctly in
 three minutes or get eliminated from the game. The contestant who answers
 the questions in the least amount of time -- three minutes or less -- will
 be declared the champion and will be awarded a Nintendo Wii.
     At the APA Heritage festival, visitors to Verizon's booth will have the
 opportunity to learn about Verizon FiOS Internet and Verizon High Speed
 Internet and can sign up for any of the services. In-language specialists
 will be on hand to provide assistance. In addition, visitors will be
 invited to join the booth raffle. The winner will receive a free LG VX8700
 phone, courtesy of Verizon Wireless. The phone, just introduced last month,
 features VCAST for music and video, Bluetooth capabilities, a 2.0-megapixel
 camera and camcorder, and a microSD memory port for storage.
     This will be the 28th Annual APA Heritage Festival organized by the
 Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans. The event was created in 1979 by
 former President Jimmy Carter to promote the Asian Pacific American
 community and culture.
     This year, Verizon is a Patron sponsor of the festival. Supporting the
 Asian community has always been one of Verizon's top priorities. Verizon
 features an in-language Web site for the company's Asian customers across
 the country. For more than a decade, Verizon has provided in-language sales
 representatives to support customers who speak Chinese (Mandarin and
 Cantonese), Korean and Vietnamese. Today, more than 1,000 employees staff
 13 Verizon consumer multicultural sales and solution centers in various
 parts of the United States, all of them communicating with customers in
 their native languages. For more information about Verizon's broadband
 services in Chinese, visit www.verizon.com/chinese or
 www.verizon.com/FiOS/chinese; and in Korean, visit www.verizon.com/korean
 or www.verizon.com/FiOS/korean.
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 leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless
 communication innovations to mass market, business, government and
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 Wireline operations include Verizon Business, which delivers innovative and
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 Telecom, which brings customers the benefits of converged communications,
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 fiber-optic network. A Dow 30 company, Verizon has a diverse workforce of
 more than 238,000 and last year generated consolidated operating revenues
 of more than $88 billion. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.
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