Thursday, June 27, 2013

Verizon turns on LTE service in its 500th market, pushes VoLTE launch to next year

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Just a short two and half years ago, Verizon became the first US carrier to offer 4G LTE service when it deployed service in 38 markets. On Thursday, the carrier is announcing that it now covers over 500 markets with the speedy mobile broadband, a growth of 100 markets in just eight months. The network's 500th market is officially Parkersburg, West Virginia, but Verizon says that Liberal, Kansas and Warren, Pennsylvania are also getting LTE service today, pushing the total number of markets over 500. Verizon claims that its LTE service covers more than 99 percent of its 3G network and is available to more than 95 percent of the US population, or just over 298 million people.


While Verizon's main competitors — AT&T, Sprint, and...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/27/4467742/verizon-turns-lte-service-500th-market-volte-2014

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