Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless Brings Free Talk Time to U.S. Troops



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A drop box for Cell Phones for Soldiers at a Mobile Income Verizon Wireless shop.

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Knoxville, Tenn. (Vocus) September 29, 2009

Mobile Product sales, the nation’s most significant Verizon Wireless retailer, has joined forces with Cell Phones for Soldiers at several of its merchants in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. Cell Phones for Soldiers is a nationwide nonprofit group that distributes free telephone calling cards to U.S. troops serving overseas.

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Brian Snyder, regional supervisor for Mobile Product sales, said, “We are excited to be capable to give back to the soldiers that serve this nation. With so numerous troops in this location, we imagine we can make a beneficial affect by partnering with Cell Phones for Soldiers.”

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Cell Phones for Soldiers turned old cell phones into a lot more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. service guys and females in 2008. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers collected approximately 50,000 cell phones each and every month via a network of much more than three,000 assortment websites across the country.

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The phones are sent to a business that pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each and every donated mobile phone. Each and every phone donated to Cell Phones for Soldiers generates about an hour of discuss time for a soldier abroad. People in america exchange an believed 130 million cell phones every year.

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded in 2004 by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass. Amongst them, the two teens had a complete of $ 21 to begin the organization. Considering that that time, the organization has raised $ two million in donations and distributed a lot more than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving abroad.

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“Cell Phones for Soldiers started as a small way to display our family’s appreciation for the males and ladies who have sacrificed the day-to-day contact with their own families to serve in the U.S. armed forces,” said the teens’ father, Bob Bergquist. “Over the previous number of many years, we have been overcome by the generosity of other individuals – but we have also noticed the will need to assist our troops go on to increase as far more troops are sent overseas for lengthier assignments.”

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By way of enhanced fundraising efforts, the Bergquist family members hopes to increase a lot more than $ 9 million in the following 5 a long time to fund new applications like delivering video phones with prepaid services to enable soldiers overseas to see their households on a typical foundation.

Mobile Income, the nation’s most significant retailer of Verizon Wireless, is a 15-yr previous privately held business headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn. The company presently operates all through the United States. By 12 months conclude, Cellular Revenue – which attributes its quick expansion to unparalleled consumer service – will open fifty new stores, bringing the company’s total amount of areas to over 300. For the past two years, Inc. magazine named Cellular Revenue a single of the nation’s fastest expanding businesses on its “Inc. five,000″ record.

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In accordance to Dane Scism, founder and CEO of Cellular Product sales, the company is evaluating the Georgia, Florida and South Carolina region sponsorship of Cell Phones for Soldiers and may possibly at some point roll the system out at all of the company’s stores through the United States.

For more data about Cellular Income and the Cell Phones for Soldiers system, or to discover a Mobile Income employed cell mobile phone drop-off spot near you, go to the company’s web website at http://www.cellularsales.com .

Media: Higher resolution pictures are connected to this release. For far more information or to prepare interviews, get in touch with Rick Laney at (865) 584-0550 or rlaney(at)ackermannpr(dot)com.

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