Da-Chief
03-05-2010, 12:40
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Verizon really hasn't announced anything new in terms of their plans to deploy LTE wireless broadband service for a while, though for whatever reason this week there's a flood of stories (http://news.google.com/news?q=Verizon%20LTE&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn) focusing on Verizon LTE. We're not seeing much new info in these stories, which all repeat Verizon's plans to launch 5-12 Mbps (https://www.lte.vzw.com/AboutLTE/VerizonWirelessLTENetwork/tabid/6003/Default.aspx) (probably closer to 3-8 Mbps) service in 25-30 markets before the end of this year. There's still no word on caps or pricing, but Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone tells Network World (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/022510-verizon-lte-melone.html) they aren't playing around when it comes to getting LTE deployed nationally, rather quickly:We're excited about going out of the gate with LTE in 25 to 30 markets later this year, but we're also going to be aggressive in our plan to get to critical mass. Fifteen months after our initial launch we're planning to double the number of markets that have LTE. Then by the end of 2013 we're going to have our entire current 3G footprint covered by 4G. So in other words, everywhere we have 3G coverage today we'll have 4G coverage. And we'll also have places where we don't have 3G coverage today that we'll have 4G.
And that last bit, as we've been saying (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/106652), is Verizon's master stroke. The carrier is offloading all of their unwanted, copper-based rural networks (and regulatory headaches, and union workers, and debt) to smaller telcos. They'll then come back into these markets in several years with LTE service that should out-perform first generation DSL and win many of those same customers back again. According to Melone, Verizon's actually ahead of where they thought they'd be, with LTE voice service on tap for 2011.
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Verizon really hasn't announced anything new in terms of their plans to deploy LTE wireless broadband service for a while, though for whatever reason this week there's a flood of stories (http://news.google.com/news?q=Verizon%20LTE&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn) focusing on Verizon LTE. We're not seeing much new info in these stories, which all repeat Verizon's plans to launch 5-12 Mbps (https://www.lte.vzw.com/AboutLTE/VerizonWirelessLTENetwork/tabid/6003/Default.aspx) (probably closer to 3-8 Mbps) service in 25-30 markets before the end of this year. There's still no word on caps or pricing, but Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone tells Network World (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/022510-verizon-lte-melone.html) they aren't playing around when it comes to getting LTE deployed nationally, rather quickly:We're excited about going out of the gate with LTE in 25 to 30 markets later this year, but we're also going to be aggressive in our plan to get to critical mass. Fifteen months after our initial launch we're planning to double the number of markets that have LTE. Then by the end of 2013 we're going to have our entire current 3G footprint covered by 4G. So in other words, everywhere we have 3G coverage today we'll have 4G coverage. And we'll also have places where we don't have 3G coverage today that we'll have 4G.
And that last bit, as we've been saying (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/106652), is Verizon's master stroke. The carrier is offloading all of their unwanted, copper-based rural networks (and regulatory headaches, and union workers, and debt) to smaller telcos. They'll then come back into these markets in several years with LTE service that should out-perform first generation DSL and win many of those same customers back again. According to Melone, Verizon's actually ahead of where they thought they'd be, with LTE voice service on tap for 2011.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Were-Not-Playing-Around-With-This-LTE-Thing-107216)
More... (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Were-Not-Playing-Around-With-This-LTE-Thing-107216)