More 4G momentum: Verizon tests service across country
August 14th, 2009, 3:03 pm · 1 Comment · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Noted: The folks at Verizon successfully tested 4G data calls between Boston and Seattle. The Verizon Tweeters couldn’t keep quiet about it either, as noted by DSLReports.
Verizon is rolling out its faster 4G Internet service for mobile phones using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Rival Sprint is also making 4G news using Wimax technology. It recently added more cities to its 2009 roll out, but excluded everyone in California.
Side note: Verizon says it will launch 4G service next year in 30 markets, with the whole nation covered by 2013. I’ll cross my fingers that Orange County is among the first batch.
From the web:
- Verizon Successfully Tests LTE In Boston, Seattle (DSLReports)
- Can you hear my LTE call now? Verizon begins 4G rollout (FierceWireless)
- Verizon completes initial 4G wireless test (CNET)
- Verizon’s LTE site
More 4G coverage on Gadgetress:
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LTE is not 4G. Dream on Verizon!
AT&T, Sprint T-Mobile and Metro PCS are a long ways away from providing REAL 4G too. Once again the USA has to wait.
“LTE is sometimes called a 4G standard, which is actually not correct as it merely satisfies the 3GPP requirements for a 3G standard. In reality, international standardization bodies, such as 3GPP and ITU, have already set high-level requirements for 4G technologies, and those will be met by LTE-Advanced.” – http://www.telecomasia.net/content/lte-not-4g-yet