November 29, 2007
Confirmed: Verizon to Go LTE on Cellular
An article in Ars Technica has confirmed that Verizon Wireless will go LTE in its 4g plans. Not an unexpected turn of events. It gives Verizon Wireless and Vodaphone, a part owner, to come to common ground on technology development. From the article –
Verizon Wireless has decided to throw its lot in with 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the wireless carrier eyes an eventual deployment of and transition to 4G. LTE is potentially capable of 100Mbps downloads, 50Mbps uploads, and latencies of as little as 5ms (for small IP packets) for each 20MHz of spectrum available. LTE can handle up to 200 simultaneous users per 5MHz slice of spectrum.
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Looks like there is a golden opportunity for Sprint - they’s got a 2+ years head start if they can get thier Wimax together
You bet, if Sprint will leave the starting blocks and deploy quickly. What’s the ole Will Rogers saying? — “You can be on the right track, but if you sit there you might get run over.”