Verizon LTE 4G Service Launching
Verizon is releasing details on its LTE service launch date and it’s expected to go live on Sunday December 5th. Tony Malone, SVP and CTO at Verizon Wireless hopes the 38 metropolitan markets he’s launching (along the I-95 corridor) in Boston, Washington D.C. and the West Coast (no details on this). Full coverage service maps will be available starting this Sunday where it will also launch service in 60 airports in the US.
LTE is running on 700 MHz nationwide and hopes to cover the entire 3G footprint with LTE by 2013. Performance is expected to be 10x of that in 3G and perform at a range of 5-12 megabits per second. Latency will be half of current 3G figures which will be comparable to performance on “wired networks” said Malone.
Expect to be priced an arm and a leg for 4G service where 5 GB will cost you $50 or $80 for 10 GB. (It should be noted that these are cheaper than its current 3G offerings)
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Sprint Launches 4G Service in more Markets
Sprint officially released 4G to our pockets in the following new markets: Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Customers in these regions will be able to take full advantage of Spring 4G and be able to browse up to 10 times faster than 3G service. With the addition of these six markets, Sprint 4G is now available in 68 markets[i] across the country, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and New York City. Additionally, the wireless carrier announced that it expects to launch the San Francisco market – home to Silicon Valley and thousands of tech enthusiasts – on Dec. 28.
Since launching their first 4G service in Baltimore in September 2008, Sprint has made large improvements in it’s coverage but still lack sufficient coverage in Los Angeles where we tested this in West Los Angeles and parts of Brentwood. Coverage has been spotty but nevertheless, downtown and other geographic areas where there’s a clear line of sight work just fine.
Sprint is delivering the power of 4G as the majority shareholder of Clearwire, the independent company that is building the WiMAX network.
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Mount Everest gets 3G phone calls
The Hindustan Times reported some interesting news the other day reporting that the reach of globalization has finally come full circle. A Nepali telecommunications firm just started providing third-generation (3G) mobile service at the summit of Mount Everest at 29,029 ft
I can hear it now “Hey mom! You won’t believe where i’m calling from!”
Let’s just hope facetime works up there without freezing
The Hindustan Times carried a small news item the other day that, depending on your perspective, is good news or a sign of the apocalypse. It reported that a Nepali telecommunications firm had just started providing third-generation mobile network service, or 3G, at the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, to “allow thousands of climbers and trekkers who throng the region every year access to high-speed Internet and video calls using their mobile phones.” – NYTimes
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