February 20, 2009

Verizon expects 4G launch next year | 3GSM blog - CNET Reviews

Verizon expects 4G launch next year | 3GSM blog - CNET Reviews:

We hope Vermont will be fully blanketed with Verizon's 4G LTE, but my guess is that will be closer to 2015 than 2010, perhaps a couple of years earlier in the Burlington area market.

"'We are modeling the roll-out after our EV-DO deployment. So we expect to get to about the same level in the first year of deploying LTE that we got with EV-DO, which is about 25 or 30 markets. That is probably a reasonable estimate,' he said, referring to the Long Term Evolution network.

Verizon will continue to build out the 4G wireless network and expects to blanket the continental U.S. and Hawaii with the new wireless network by 2015.

The network will use 700MHz wireless spectrum that Verizon acquired in the Federal Communications Commission's auction last year. The company announced in 2007 that it planned to use a technology call Long Term Evolution to build its next-generation wireless networks.

Several GSM operators around the world have also announced plans to use LTE, which means that Verizon 4G wireless subscribers will eventually be able to roam globally."

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