Verizon Looking for 700MHz Spectrum in Alaska
Verizon: bring the awesomeness of LTE to the furthest stretches of the U.S.! ! !
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.
http://gigaom.com/2010/05/17/exclusive-the-details-o ... »
http://gigaom.com/2010/02/10/att-taps-alcatel-lucent ... »
"The vendors are experiencing some challenges on certain features and software, and first implementations in 2011 will be…pretty vanilla.â€Â
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.
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.
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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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.
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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