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Verizon, which is rumored to be launching an LTE network in Q1 2010, gave more information about their planned LTE network yesterday during the company’s earning call. LTE, for the uninitiated, stands for Long Term Evolution and will eventually be branded as 4G by operators around the world. It’s going to offer an insane amount of speed and make it cheaper for operators to offer data to customers. “We plan to conduct LTE trials in Seattle and in Boston later this year” said Chief Financial Officer John Killian. He further added that the company is “working on a commercial launch of LTE service in up to 30 markets next year.” And that in “2011 and 2012, we’ll continue to expand significantly with the ultimate goal being to cover all our POPs [points of presence] with this great product by the end of 2013.” The sad news, that many of you are going to hate me for delivering, is that Verizon expects their LTE network to only offer 8-12 Mbps. A huge disappointment since we’ve been reading things such as “Nokia breaks 173 Mbps during LTE test trial in Germany” since early 2008. What gives Verizon? Are you using come janky ass bootleg Chinese networking equipment to cut down on costs?
Oh and one more bad piece of news: The company plans to ax another 8,000 jobs during the second half of this year. Can you say ouch?
Update: I’m strongly thinking that this PC Mag article has a typo and that the author meant to say 8-12 MBps (megabytes per second) and not Mbps (megabits per second) since 8-12 MBps would equal 64-92 Mbps and that sounds like a much more accurate figure for LTE.
[Via: PC Magazine]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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