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Txt 2 Vote 4 Ur Favrt Winery! NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular Wireless invites wine fans to vote for their favorite Virginia winery at the 19th annual Town Point Virginia Festival this weekend, October 21-22 at Town Point Park in downtown Norfolk. Cingular customers can simply text the code for the winery of their choice to "FEST" (3378). Winery codes will be posted at tasting tents throughout the festival. Attendees can also cast their text votes at the Cingular booth or with Cingular representatives roaming the festival. Regular updates of wineries in the lead will be broadcast from the main stage throughout the festival and the top three wineries will be announced at the close of the event on Sunday afternoon. Text voting is catching hold as text messaging reaches record highs in the United States. According to CTIA, the wireless association, 12.5 billion text messages were sent in June 2006, up 71% from 7.3 billion messages in June 2005. Cingular, a major sponsor of the Festevents series, is incorporating text messaging and text voting as a regular part of its annual sponsorship. Text Voting Is As Easy As 1, 2, 3! If you're a wine fan and Cingular customer but you've never text voted, you just need to follow these three simple steps: 1. On your Cingular Wireless phone, select Menu and start a new message from the Text Messaging option. 2. Type in the code for your favorite winery, then select Options, and Send. 3. Enter the 3378 (which spells FEST), then select OK. 4. You will get a confirmation message indicating your vote has been received Cingular offers two easy ways to text message: - Pay as you go (automatically included with your service - $0.10 a message) - Select a text/instant messaging package for as low as $4.99 a month so you can vote as often as you like Most Cingular phones support text messaging. Have an older phone and not sure if it is enabled for text messaging? Visit http://www.cingular.com/media/text_messaging or dial 611 from your wireless phone to find out if your phone is compatible. About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 57.3 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(TM) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is a leader in third generation wireless technology. Its 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(r), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases emailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://cingular.mediaroom.com/. DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Alexa Kaufman of Cingular Wireless, +1-301-489-3610, or wireless, +1-301-742-0888 Web site: http://www.cingular.com/ http://cingular.mediaroom.com/

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