Verizon will take 4G LTE to rural areas

Verizon will take 4G LTE to rural areas

Brad Sams on 02 April 2009 - 14:03 · 20 comments & 4701 views

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Verizon has plans to deploy 4G on a scale that has never been seen or experienced. Currently Verizon is known for its outstanding coverage and large 3G service areas and they have no plans to give up that reputation anytime soon.

"The licenses we bought in the 700MHz auction cover the whole U.S.," Melone said. "And we plan to roll out LTE throughout the entire country, including places where we don't offer our CDMA cell phone service today."

The upcoming LTE service may be the best chance for high speed internet access to those who live out in rural places that do not have the option for cable or DSL services. Verizons target for LTE is to hit 20-30 markets by the end of 2010 and expect a faster adoption rate in the years following.

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#1 Dane on 02 Apr 2009 - 14:13

Awesome!!

#2 dcghost on 02 Apr 2009 - 14:20

Wish we knew what markets those 30 included..

(1 reply) #3 Peeyush on 02 Apr 2009 - 14:41

3G yet to come to India

, and they are planning for 4G ....

#3.1 seta-san on 02 Apr 2009 - 15:40

4G has been there for a while. If you wish to know about new cellphone technology watch the company called "NTT DOCOMO"

(5 replies) #4 sava700 on 02 Apr 2009 - 14:55

The price they charge for you to use your phone to access the internet is too much IMO.. its around 30/35$ a month.

#4.1 Dane on 02 Apr 2009 - 17:46

sava700 said,

The price they charge for you to use your phone to access the internet is too much IMO.. its around 30/35$ a month.

30-35?!

I pay 15$ for unlimited use on my phone with Verizon.

#4.2 A.B.L.N.N. on 02 Apr 2009 - 23:59

sava700 said,

The price they charge for you to use your phone to access the internet is too much IMO.. its around 30/35$ a month.

I pay $135 USD every month for unlimited everything on my Storm.

#4.3 Silverskull on 03 Apr 2009 - 01:23

Dane said,

30-35?!

I pay 15$ for unlimited use on my phone with Verizon.

Not a smartphone, right? Didn't think so. Verizon's like that... well they're all like that. Except Sprint, it's why we switched. Couldn't afford it on any other carrier.

#4.4 necroxd on 03 Apr 2009 - 02:16

A.B.L.N.N. said,

I pay $135 USD every month for unlimited everything on my Storm.

WTF?! Dude i pay 80.97 for unlimited everything and 450 minutes. I'm with verizon.

#4.5 A.B.L.N.N. on 03 Apr 2009 - 13:12

necroxd said,

WTF?! Dude i pay 80.97 for unlimited everything and 450 minutes. I'm with verizon.

I have unlimited minutes....

#5 DigitalDude on 02 Apr 2009 - 15:57

Alot of these rural areas are probably the ones they bought when they took over Alltel. Pretty cool that they are already working on improving these areas.

(2 replies) #6 Squirts MacIntosh on 02 Apr 2009 - 16:56

And AT&T still barely has a 3G network. BOOO!!! I really wish Apple would dump AT&T and go with Verizon.

#6.1 Shunik Jan on 02 Apr 2009 - 22:25

Hey troll, have you seen T-Mobile??? Their 3G service is very premature and you're talking AT&T. AT&T has 3.5G HSDPA in the same areas as plain 3G. It isn't Apple's fault Verizon rejected them, its their own stupid fault. Verizon to me lacks any ethical sense. Anything good they have to reject. The HTC Touch Diamond is more restricted than even the Sprint version. The BB Storm would have made me switch from AT&T if it only had WiFi. Think before you leave comments as such.

#6.2 AltoidBox on 03 Apr 2009 - 01:37

Actually, rejecting the iPhone sounds like a good ethical sense to me. Not that its a bad phone, but that you have to deal with Apple. *shudder*

(1 reply) #7 +bob21 on 02 Apr 2009 - 16:57

Looks like the worlds first 4g PDA Phone , The HTC Max 4G will have to go worldwide

#7.1 profets on 02 Apr 2009 - 18:24

although right now the HTC Max 4G is a GSM/WiMax phone, not LTE

#8 +Xerxes on 02 Apr 2009 - 21:14

Interesting, I wounder if Telstra down here in Australia will start rolling out a 4G network anytime soon? wasn't long again when they rolled out their 3.5G network (boasting it was the fastest national network in the world*), be interesting to see if they let Verizon take the crown or if they'll defend it

* I suspect it isn't the fastest now though, we are probably on par with everyone else now.

#9 lylesback2 on 02 Apr 2009 - 22:45

Great news! Now if Canada will follow in Verizon's footsteps

#10 +micwa on 03 Apr 2009 - 01:15

Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.

#11 +Frazell Thomas on 03 Apr 2009 - 03:55

Aren't they only doing this due to the FCC mandating it at the auction where they won the spectrum? Hopefully the free level still pans out...

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