Verizon is hitting hard with its LTE or 4G rollout starting in West Virginia at the end of this year. We mentioned earlier that Charleston would be the first city to see coverage, but Verizon has announced a slightly more detailed plan in its LTE rollout efforts. Charleston will receive partial coverage at the end of this year, while full coverage is expected in mid-2011.
Additional cities getting LTE treatment in West Virginia will be Huntington, Parkersburg, Wheeling, Weirton, Beckley, Clarksburg, Morgantown, Fairmont and Martinsburg all getting complete coverage by the end of 2013. That’s to be expected, however, since Verizon says that it plans to have the entire nation blanketed in LTE by the time 2014 rolls around.
Verizon says:
Verizon Wireless is deploying the world’s first large-scale 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network to 38 markets and more than 60 commercial airports across the nation, covering more than 110 million Americans. The company will begin its West Virginia wireless expansion and 4G deployment in Charleston this year and roll out to other metropolitan areas throughout the state by 2013.
While Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network promises much more than speed, the first application gives employees the ability to work at significantly faster speeds and improved latency, increasing productivity and the opportunity to get work done where their business takes them.
To the folks who will be seeing the first of Verizon’s LTE network, I say, you are all lucky. Now if only we’d start seeing LTE-capable handsets very shortly after launch.
[Via: Verizon and PhoneScoop]