Verizon Ends Fixed LTE Trials With DirecTV → Re: replacing apples with oranges

Obviously the real parts to the agreement aren't being shared yet. So what we know is that Verizon bought some frequency above the LTE bands. Comcast does have a network of towers out there, and in theory I would assume they are also fiber fed off of Comcasts network. Was part of this deal also that Comcast becomes Verizon's backhaul provided for their LTE network. Without something like that, there would be no way that Verizon and LTE can coompete against Docsis 3.0 and 50-100mb service.