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Verizon Wireless is sponsoring special HopeLine phone collections across the nation during October, which is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, where consumers can learn more about the epidemic of domestic violence and donate their old wireless phones to the company's HopeLine program to help victims. Scheduled events include phone collections at sporting events and the How Sweet the Sound choir competitions. For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com/hopelineDVAM, which will be updated throughout the month. Verizon Wireless employees are participating in activities including HopeLine phone collections at company locations nationwide, employee volunteer opportunities at domestic violence agencies and participation by company officials in local domestic violence awareness events. Since 2001, when the recycling program launched, nearly 6.5 million phones have been collected and more than 76,000 phones with 228 million minutes of service have been put into the hands of domestic violence victims.