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Verizon: We’re going to launch LTE in 30 “NFL League Cities” soon

Categories: Infrastructure, Verizon
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 3:15 AM
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Bernie McMonagle, a Verizon Senior Federal Sales Executive, was giving a talk in Bethesda, Maryland and of course the topic of LTE was brought up. Much of what he said isn’t new, but it’s nice to hear reassurances that all is going well. We’ve known for a long time that Verizon’s goal was to launch LTE in 25 to 30 markets, but now we have more exact wording: 30 “National Football League Cities” will have Verizon’s new high speed service by the end of 2010. By 2013 the whole country should be covered. The network is all IP based, version 6, and is designed to deliver speeds of between 5 Mbps to 12 Mbps on the download and 2 Mbps to 5 Mbps on the upload. Latency will hover in the 30 millisecond to 150 millisecond range.

Initial LTE devices will be laptop cards, but Bernie expects a vast ecosystem to be built around the technology rather shortly as prices fall when manufactures begin embedding LTE in all kinds of devices from refrigerators, toasters, even your family car. All of Verizon’s cell sites are in the process of being upgraded to gigabit ethernet support on the backhaul side to handle the upcoming explosion in data usage. Verizon is also preparing an upgrade to their LTE network once it’s built out that will offer much higher speeds, more like we’re used to seeing in Europe.

In Sweden, recent tests performed by IDG on TeliaSonera’s network show that LTE delivers real world results of average downloads around 33.4 Mbps on the download and 12.7 Mbps on the upload. What’s limiting Verizon is beyond me, but knowing how much they care about network quality, going so far as to say they’ve pumped $100 billion into their network since the start of this century, it’s not going to be long before they double or even triple what they’re planning on offering come this holiday season.

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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.

  • kcir

    I think if you investigate the spectrum holdings of Verizon in the 700 MHz band the picture will be clearer as to the speed limiations. The radio link in wireless is like the “last mile” in the wireline world and spectrum equates to the size of the line (or circuit). Comparable to DSL there are limitations with both distance and bandwidth. There is only so much speed you get out of a phone line, but a fiber connection; much more. Spectrum allotment determines the size of the line (circuit).

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