Skype Mobile Now Available to Verizon Wireless Retailer Cellular Sales Customers

March 25, 2010; 08:56 AM

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – March 25, 2010 – Beginning today, customers of Verizon Wireless retailer Cellular Sales are no longer confined to their PC when making Skype-to-Skype calls. With Skype mobile™, Verizon Wireless 3G smartphone users with data plans will be able to connect with friends, family, and business colleagues around the world. This new service is available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers.

“This is a tremendous partnership between Verizon Wireless and Skype,” said Dane Scism, founder and CEO of Cellular Sales. “With Skype mobile on our phones, customers will be able to enjoy conversations with Skype contacts wherever they are at no extra cost.”

Skype mobile uses the Verizon Wireless voice network for the wireless connection of the Skype-to-Skype calls. Skype mobile users can:

• make and receive unlimited Skype-to-Skype voice calls to any Skype contact around the globe;

• send and receive unlimited instant messages with other Skype users;

• manage the Skype contact list directly from the mobile application; and

• call international phone numbers at competitive Skype calling rates.

Skype mobile will be available initially on millions of best-selling Verizon Wireless 3G smartphones, including the BlackBerry® Storm™ 9530, Storm2™ 9550, Curve™ 8330, Curve™ 8530, 8830 World Edition, and Tour™ 9630 smartphones, as well as DROID by Motorola, DROID ERIS™ by HTC and Motorola DEVOUR™.

“This partnership between Verizon and Skype heralds more great things to come as 4G technology rolls out,” said Jay Witherspoon of Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless.  “Verizon is leveraging their network with Skype's community to give Verizon users a better mobile experience.  These would-be rivals are now helping each other, to the benefit of the consumer. It's a great situation for everyone.”

Cellular Sales is a 16-year old privately held company headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn.  The company currently operates throughout the United States.  By year end, Cellular Sales – which attributes its rapid growth to unparalleled customer service – will open 50 new stores, bringing the company’s total number of locations to well over 300.  Last year, Inc. Magazine named Cellular Sales one of the nation’s fastest growing privately held companies. 

For more information about Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless, or to find a store near you, visit the company’s web site at www.cellularsales.com.