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Verizon Wireless may finish building out its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network by 2014, according to an Unstrung interview with Roger Gurnani, senior vice president of product development at the carrier. Although Gurnani wasn't specific, he offered a year-by-year outline of the carrier's buildout.
Gurnani said Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest operator, will have a couple of LTE test markets up and running by the end of 2009, and "30 or so" markets running in 2010.
"From there we'll build it out in the next two, three years, where we'll have LTE deployed throughout our footprint," Gurnani said in a video interview.
In an interview in February with FierceWireless, Verizon Communications CTO Dick Lynch said, "I can demonstrate a commercial system this year. I can show you a footprint of respectable magnitude in 2010." Added Lynch: "I am confident that while it's aggressive and I won't say that there won't be a few bumps in the road along the way, I am comfortable that LTE has essentially been primed for a good launch in 2010."
Verizon revealed its LTE vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson, during the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona in February.
Verizon's LTE buildout plans are some of the most aggressive in the world. In the United States, MetroPCS has said it will launch LTE in the second half of 2010 and AT&T Mobility has said it will launch LTE in 2011.
For more:
- see this Unstrung article
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Comments
Posted by Anonymous | April 14, 2009 - 12:11pm
WiMAX could have had a national footprint in 2007, had it not been for the sheit for brains at Sprint
Posted by Anonymous | April 15, 2009 - 10:22am
wimax is a better product more band width than lte
Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2009 - 8:58pm
While I agree that WiMax could have had a national footprint in like 2007. Instead it is 2009, and only Baltimore, Portland, Atlanta, and soon Las Vagas have 4G. They keep saying markets are coming, like 20 or so this year is the lastest, yeah right, maybe 8 or so. Sprint is on a downward spiral, could be saved, but no signs yet. Palm Pre is nice, but Verizon Wireless is getting it is 6 months, so a temporary bump for Sprint. Also then betting on WiMax against the rest of the carriers, since most will go LTE, which I think it better than WiMax, more overall growth pontential with LTE. And more phones will likely be released on LTE than WiMax. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, most the worlds GSM carriers. Level 3 alliance could be nice.
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