Posts Tagged ‘LTE’

Verizon Readies 4G Network

March 19th, 2010

Verizon Wireless confirmed today that it’s on track with building the nation’s first 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless network. It praised the work of a number of partners, along with the company’s network engineers, equipment vendors, backhaul providers and device design experts, who have been preparing for the launch of the highly anticipated fourth-generation network later this year.

“Our progress is good, and we’re confident that the next generation of wireless network technology will deliver the speed, reliability and bandwidth that businesses, government and consumers have been anticipating,” said Lowell McAdam, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless. “Our work on 4G LTE underscores our continuing commitment to provide the best wireless experience available today. Building and operating great wireless networks is what we do, and everything we do at Verizon Wireless – from devices to applications to solutions – stems from that foundation of network know-how.”

Verizon Wireless engineers report trials showing peak download speeds of 40 to 50 megabits per second (Mbps) and peak upload speeds of 20 to 25 Mbps and expects LTE average data rates of 5 to 12 Mbps on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink in real-world environments.

The announcement comes ahead of next week’s As tech watchers prepare for next week’s CTIA WIRELESS 2010 convention in Las Vegas, NV.

Verizon to make network better, pricing worse

January 13th, 2010

Dick Lynch Verizon CTOWe all know Verizon’s new LTE network is going to kick ass. But how much is it going to cost?

The Washington Post‘s Cecilia Kang seems to be the source of a quote by Verizon Wireless’ Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch from CES:

The whole paradigm of how we sell devices into the public is changing. At the same time that we announced LTE, we announced an open development initiative where we encouraged third-party developers to deploy devices on our network.

Awesome. Meaning we can finally have wireless internet access that rivals the speeds other countries have been enjoying for years. Then he gets to the interesting part.

The problem we have today with flat-based usage is that you are trying to encourage customers to be efficient in use and applications but you are getting some people who are bandwidth hogs using gigabytes a month and they are paying something like megabytes a month. That isn’t long-term sustainable. Why should customers using an average amount of bandwidth be subsidizing bandwidth hogs?

Well Dick, it’s because I am a bandwidth hog and I enjoy being subsidized, ok?