Canyon Country Residents Win five-Day Trip To Superbowl XXXVI In New Orleans From Verizon Wireless And Motorola

IRVINE, CA — Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless provider, and Motorola, Inc., today announced that Linda Ratzlaff of Canyon Country, California, and her son Kenneth will make a trip-of-a-lifetime to Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans. Linda entered the Motorola Super Bowl Sweepstakes in November and was selected as one of three winners in the 12 western United States.

Linda and Kenneth will fly to New Orleans and spend five days / four nights as guests of the two telecommunications firms. In addition to tickets to the league championship game, they will receive hotel accommodations, ground transportation to and from the airport in New Orleans and to all NFL events as well as admission to two NFL parties.

"My son got the call from Verizon Wireless saying you've won," said Linda Ratzlaff. "I didn't believe it, but my son knew. We are both big football fans, and are very grateful to Motorola and Verizon Wireless for giving us this opportunity."

Other winners of the sweepstakes are David Knabel of Tacoma, Washington and Bruce Udelhoven of Winifred, Montana. Motorola Sweepstakes' participants entered to win at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming between November 14 and November 25.

About Motorola

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2000 were $37.6 billion. For more information, please visit the Motorola web site at http://www.motorola.com.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S. with more than 28.7 million wireless voice and data customers. The coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). Verizon Wireless has a footprint covering more than 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 97 of the top 100 U.S. markets. The company, headquartered in Bedminster, NJ, is 40,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information about the company on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com.

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