``LONG BEACH — In a matter of a few weeks, Huntington Beach residents and businesses will be the envy of much of the downloading world, an executive said.
"Transformation has become our watchword," Tim McCallion, president of Verizon's Pacific region, said during a Long Beach Rotary Club speech Wednesday at the Queen Mary, where the telecommunications executive lashed out at an initiative to tax phone users to help pay for more emergency rooms.

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