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Verizon plans mass LTE deployment
By siliconindia
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Friday, 25 September 2009, 18:53 IST
Tennessee: Verizon wireless is planning a nationwide deployment of LTE (Long-Term Evolution) in one swoop rather than deploying it in a traditional market-by-market rollout. In a speech given at the 2009 PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show, the Senior Vice President and CTO of Verizon Wireless, Tony Melone revealed that Verizon intends to launch LTE in 25 to 30 markets in 2010, aiming to deploy the 4G technology across its nationwide 3G footprint by year-end 2013.
In his keynote speech at the conference, Melone had said, "The winners in the 4G world will be those companies that first, focus on their core competencies, and second, facilitate and embrace collaboration and partnering. We can build all the bells and whistles and make lots of bold claims, but none of it will matter if the network - and all of the underlying infrastructure that supports the network - is not fundamentally reliable."
The rollout "will be as close to all-at-once as possible," Melone said in an interview to Information Week, in which he noted that the firm is right on schedule with its LTE wireless technology. "We want to give our customers a significant footprint," and won't "tease," them with trial deployments."
Verizon is also taking part in a number of collaborative initiatives aiming to develop the '4G ecosystem,' such as the Open Development Initiative, established to help third parties develop and certify devices to run on the new network; the Verizon LTE Innovation Center, serving as an incubator for the early development of both traditional and non-traditional LTE products and the Verizon Developer Community, a group of application developers designing a range of mobile applications.