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Verizon 'Discussing' LTE Roaming with Overseas Partners

Sep 2, 2011, 9:57 AM by Eric M. Zeman

In an interview with AllThingsD, Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer David Small said that the company believes the wireless industry will "come together" and eventually enable Long Term Evolution devices to roam across different networks. "I think the ecosystem will certainly converge at the appropriate time," Small said. Small also indicated that Verizon Wireless has already broached the topic with its overseas partners Vodafone and China Mobile. "We've had a fair amount of dialogue," he said. In the U.S., Verizon Wireless's LTE network operates in the upper 700MHz band and AT&T's LTE network will operate on the lower 700MHz band when it launches later this year. Right now, AT&T LTE devices will not be able to roam onto Verizon's LTE network and vice versa due to the spectrum support difference. European carriers, such as Vodafone, are deploying LTE in other spectrum bands, including 2600MHz. It is possible that Verizon will add support for these others bands so that its LTE 4G customers can access LTE 4G services when roaming abroad. Verizon Wireless has not formally announced any such plans, however.

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Mark_S

Sep 2, 2011, 11:20 AM

Well.......

Hopefully they keep the roaming prices within reason.
Overseas roaming rates are already outrageous, GSM or CDMA.

Jellz

Maybe a cell phone company that was international and owned its own towers in several countries would lower the cost of international roaming? Though I'm sure there would still be some sort of fee, even then x.x

netboy

Sep 2, 2011, 11:01 AM

i wish phone manufacturers

list their phones at "LTE 700-" for ATT
"LTE 700+" for verizon.
i think currently they just listed the phone as "LTE 700" so you dont know which carrier it will compatible!

that1guy

If it's an AT&T LTE phone, it will list support for 700 and AWS bands on LTE. it does for their data cards.

Besides, AT&T's will have GSM support

Rich Brome

We list them as LTE 750 for Verizon and LTE 700 for AT&T.

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