Verizon Rolling Out First LTE Phone Next Year
Verizon Rolling Out First LTE Phone Next Year
Posted 03/15/2010 at 4:31am
| by Paul Lilly
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According to the latest Internet chatter, Verizon Wireless will release its first ever Long Term Evolution-based wireless phone by the middle of 2011, approximately three to six months after its LTE network goes live.
While wireless phones will play a big part of Verizon's LTE plans, LTE data cards used with notebooks will hit the market first. This is a similar approach Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are taking WiMax, having first released data cards, while Sprint is working on a WiMax phone.
Getting back to Verizon, the wireless carrier expects to have 25 to 30 U.S. markets on the peppier LTE service by the end of this year. The first LTE phones will come equipped with two radio chipsets, enabling them to work on both upcoming LTE networks, and the current CDMA infrastructure.
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Keith E. Whisman
March 15, 2010 at 7:56am
I have T-Mobile and I also have the G1 Android phone. Yes the one phone that started it all but anyhow my Data plan with T-mobile is unlimited for 25dollars a month. Yet if I get the laptop USB 3G card the best plan available is like 60 dollars a month with a 5gig bandwidth limit.
So will these LTE networks still incorporate the limited monthly bandwidth transfers? With my phone tethered to my laptop I don't have to worry about the 5gig limit.
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