Verizon Shaping Up for LTE Rollout

by Chris Moor
tagged 4G, LTE, rollout, Verizon

Sprint should find itself with some competition in the 4G arena soon, with internal documents at Verizon show them being on track to delivering 100 million connections by the end of this year. They also detail what Verizon expects in terms of performance, with average throughput of 5-12Mbps downlink and 2-5Mbps uplink being the numbers mentioned. Of course, raw speed isn’t everything (though it is very welcome), so the estimated expected network latency of 30ms is good news. Assuming those are achieved, everything should zip along quite nicely and feel pretty responsive too boot. Gaming and video conferencing become much more appealing propositions once you have suitable network performance to back them up.

The main questions now about all this 4G goodness, is how much Verizon will charge for it and what kind of restrictions (bandwidth or otherwise) might be put in place.

[via: engadget]

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Comments

Linus

I don’t get the way they are establishing 4G in the US…

They say it can reach up to around 5Mbps with LTE 4G networks?
And then that’s supposed to be fast?

European 3G (Turbo 3G+ more specifically or HSPDA) can reach 14Mbps, and most “normal” 3G phones have a speed of around 7Mbps.
Personally I get around 5Mbps on average with my HTC Desire.

The 4G LTE networks in place in Europe can theoretically get 100Mbps down, whereas testers have achieved around 20Mbps on average in Stockholm, where the world’s first public 4G network was opened/built. After an upgrade in march this year, customers have achieved speeds of 80Mbps.

Though those 4G networks require a dongle that you plug in to the computer, and no phones on the market supports it. Yet (but it won’t take long).

Why hurry so much to adapt 4G for phones, when it ends up a whole lot slower than 3G in the end anhyway?
curse

the American 3G is in all that’s practical the same as the European 3G or 3G+, they have just named it 4G so it looks “new” and “hot”, the European 4G is something different with initial 100Mbit full duplex and in the extent supposed to be even faster.