By SCBIZ Staff

GREENVILLE -- Verizon Wireless announced it spent $68.2 million to enhance services and coverage throughout South Carolina in the first six months of 2007, bringing the network investment here to more than $537 million since 2000. The company’s ongoing network investment now totals more than $37 billion nationally over the past seven years.

Major areas of improvement across South Carolina this year include: enhanced coverage in the popular vacation destinations of Kiawah Island, Seabrook Island and areas along Myrtle Beach’s Grand Strand.  

Several new cell sites have been built in the Upstate along the Interstate 85 corridor. Verizon has enhanced coverage in the Midlands and in the smaller metro areas surrounding the city of Columbia such as Lexington, Irmo, Camden and Lugoff.