Verizon Wants 4G Everywhere

January 7, 2011 By Shelly Palmer 5 Comments

Verizon Wireless

Verizon’s CES keynote revealed plans to make the 4G LTE network nationwide over the next 36 months. The high-speed wireless access will even be available in rural areas through partnerships with local providers. Boasting speeds of 5-12Mb down and 2-5Mb up, Verizon hopes the network will bring advancements to health care technology, smarter homes and networked cities. Read the full article at NYTimes.com

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Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).

HSmith

I’d just like to say that if they want to get 4G everywhere, they’d better get their cell phone network up to snuff first. I live in southern Nevada in metropolitan Las Vegas and Verizon has the worst signal of all. I finally went with the hated AT&T and my signal is much better.
http://www.thedonovan.com/the_farm Beth Donovan

That would be wonderful, but I’m not holding my breath! Our farm is apparently in just the wrong spot for highspeed anything! So we have Satellite Internet access which is horribly expensive and just plain horrible. We cannot even stream radio stations without going over our bandwidth limit – and we pay close to $100 a month for it.
We have the most expensive plan available, yet I cannot watch videos, use VOIP or anything that uses bandwidth.
Jeff H

They may call it “4G”, but what Verizon–along with all the other US carriers–is rolling out is in NO WAY “4G”.

Per the official standard, completed late in 2010, 4G requires “100Mbps downstream with high mobility and 1Gbps for low mobility” [citing: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/4g-defined-wimax-and-lte-dont-qualify-683.

At this point, the term “4G” in the US is simply a marketing lie.

joe

The term “4G” isn’t a marketing lie. The 4G network that they are releasing is capable of much higher speeds but if you give millions of users access to the full bandwidth then your asking for some serious problems.