For Immediate Release

Mount Hope Housing to Announce Affordable Broadband Service for Residents

NEW YORK – Mount Hope Housing, in conjunction with national nonprofit One Economy and Verizon Avenue, will hold a news conference Tuesday to announce the completion of a fixed wireless broadband network that will deliver affordable high-speed Internet service to the 5,700 residents of the Mount Hope Housing Community.

WHEN: 10:05 a.m. EST
Tuesday, November 1

DIAL-IN NUMBER: (800) 416-4615

WHERE: Mount Hope Park
East 177 th Street and Walton Avenue
Bronx, N.Y. 10453

WHO: Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión
State Assemblywoman Aurelia Greene, 77 th District Shaun M. Belle, president and CEO, Mount Hope Housing Co.
Rey Ramsey, chairman and CEO, One Economy Corporation
Eric D. Cevis, CEO, Verizon Avenue
Kathryn Brown, Senior Vice President, Verizon

BACKGROUND: The Technology Initiative is a culmination of two years of work and a partnership between Mount Hope Housing Company, Verizon Avenue (www.verizon.com) and One Economy (www.one-economy.com). Verizon Avenue, a subsidiary of Verizon, plans to use the Mount Hope technology initiative as a national model for providing Internet access to other low-income residential neighborhoods in communities served by Verizon.

MEDIA CONTACTS: Kevin W. Irland, Verizon 202-360-2949; Alec Ross, One Economy 202-393-5080; Pamela Babb, Mount Hope 718-299-2051, Ext. 17