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Verizon Wireless is planning to begin their Long-Term Evolution nationwide network next year all at once rather than deploying it in a traditional market-by-market rollout. Verizon wants to be at or near 100 percent overlay with its legacy CDMA footprint by 2013, but a ton of major markets will be covered and commercially well before then -- up to 30 in 2010. According to Tony Melone, the firm's senior vice president and chief technology officer, "We want to give our customers a significant footprint," and won't "tease," them he said, with trial deployments.
Melone discusses what consumers can expect from the new LTE network. To take full advantage of the LTE, a new device will definitely be needed, "but there won't be a need to force migrate." Existing Verizon Wireless users will be able to continue to use their current devices and handsets after LTE is commercially launched.
In the past, wireless rollouts are incredibly long, protracted affairs that may take several years to complete, but Verizon plans the LTE rollout to be "'as close to all-at-once as possible." Melone has reiterated that the company is still on track with its LTE deployment and that they're not looking to "tease" customers at length with trial deployments that would require moving cross-country to enjoy. Sounds too good to be true
Verizon Wireless is planning to begin their Long-Term Evolution nationwide network next year all at once rather than deploying it in a traditional market-by-market rollout. Verizon wants to be at or near 100 percent overlay with its legacy CDMA footprint by 2013, but a ton of major markets will be covered and commercially well before then -- up to 30 in 2010. According to Tony Melone, the firm's senior vice president and chief technology officer, "We want to give our customers a significant footprint," and won't "tease," them he said, with trial deployments.
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