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Verizon: bring the awesomeness of LTE to the furthest stretches of the U.S.! ! !

Jayshmay

Aug 27, 2010, 8:54 AM
Wow! Bringing LTE to the last frontier!

I live in Las Vegas, and I like go to Boulder City on occasion just to get away, I'm looking forward to having 10+mb/s LTE in tiny little Boulder City the historic town of Hoover Dam, less than 30mi's from Vegas, but far enough away to be !AWAY!

75% of the U.S. will be covered by LTE from Verizon by April of 2012,...hmm, I wonder how much supposed progress ATT will make by April of 2012.
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GeeksAreBest

Aug 27, 2010, 9:34 AM
From what I've read, they're both actually pretty much on par with their plans so far. No real setbacks or anything yet.
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Jayshmay

Aug 27, 2010, 9:57 AM
What do you mean "they're both pretty much on par"? ATT? They don't seem to have much of any plans reguarding LTE.
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Jayshmay

Aug 27, 2010, 10:20 AM
I read the first link, this really cought my attn:
"The vendors are experiencing some challenges on certain features and software, and first implementations in 2011 will be…pretty vanilla.”

Well I guess we'll know in 6 months when I'm sure CNET & DSL Reports will have reviews available for Verizon's early LTE network.
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GeeksAreBest

Aug 27, 2010, 10:27 AM
The one thing I don't get is...Hasn't Verizon set Alcatel-Lucent for is LTE network as well? I guess any delay will be shared between companies due to vendor/build issues?
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Jayshmay

Aug 27, 2010, 10:40 AM
Hmm, I just thought of something. Perhaps Alcatel-Lucent would be a good company to invest in. Considering how many $billions$ Verizon is gonna be throwing their way the next 3yrs while building out the LTE network.
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Jayshmay

Aug 27, 2010, 10:46 AM
Ok, I read both articles. Verizon still has ATT beat by 30 cities.

Even though ATT will have HSPA+ in (however many) markets, and even though ATT also has 700mhz licenses, Verizon will have 700mhz live in 30 markets first.

I hope Verizon's LTE rate plans will be reasonable! Have to wait another 5-6wks to find out.
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dave73

Aug 27, 2010, 11:23 PM
Jayshmay said:
Ok, I read both articles. Verizon still has ATT beat by 30 cities.

Even though ATT will have HSPA+ in (however many) markets, and even though ATT also has 700mhz licenses, Verizon will have 700mhz live in 30 markets first.

I hope Verizon's LTE rate plans will be reasonable! Have to wait another 5-6wks to find out.


AT&T has a disadvantage with their 700 licenses. Unlike Verizon, AT&T chose to focus solely on the B Block, and those licenses mainly cover major markets, and nearby rural areas. The licenses they acquired from Aloha Partners have a similar coverage. So where AT&T doesn't have 700, they'll have to tap into AWS & existing 800 & 1900 spectrum.

As for Verizon, why didn't...
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Azeron

Aug 27, 2010, 8:14 PM
I highly doubt that they will cover 75% of the United States. 75% of the population IS believable. Heck they ran commercials against AT&T's 3G and AT&T's 3G coverage covers that.
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Caucasian

Aug 28, 2010, 12:21 PM
From the article you posted...

Verizon Wireless aims to have at least 75% of the country covered in LTE coverage by April 2012. When we say 75% then of course it is not geographical instead it is population wise.

I don't believe even Verizon carries the assets to deploy a brand new network, backhaul and everything, that fast.
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Jayshmay

Aug 28, 2010, 12:39 PM
Well 75% of the population seems more feasable than 75% of the land.

I live in Las Vegas, and there is a very, very small town of 15k people called Boulder City that historically exists because of Hoover Dam, it's right next to it. And sometimes I like to go there to relax and get away from Las Vegas, and I thought it would be nice to have 700mhz 10mb/s+ LTE there in Boulder City and bring my laptop to the park there.
So I'm really hoping Boulder City gets some LTE coverage alongside Las Vegas. It is close to Hoover Dam, and there is a whole, whole lot of traffic coming and going to and from Nevada and Arizona.
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Caucasian

Aug 28, 2010, 12:47 PM
I thought you were saying they are covering 75% of the physical U.S., my apologies. Physically blanketing 75% of the U.S. just isn't feasible in that amount of time if they also continue to expand 3G.
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Jonathanlc2005

Aug 27, 2010, 8:14 PM
yeah... so Eskimos can surf the web faster then the state can develop, or better yet... surf the web in thier igloos next to the polar bear rug and palin painting
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