said by sonicmerlin:$3.6 billion is only a fraction of what they earn in one year.
They still aren't going to spend it for shits and giggles which is what you are implying.
They spent $150 billion to buy out vodaphone's stake.
Yes because now instead of getting 55% of the profits they get 100%. It's not hard how to see that pays for itself. And a lot of that $150 bil was Verizon stock not real money.
The fact that they've been able to support their entire massive user base thus far with measly 10/10 channels at 700 MHz (with towers spread so far out) speaks volumes about how much capacity LTE has.
They've only now just reached the point where 50% of the devices on their network are LTE capable. And they've only recently just achieved LTE deployment everywhere. And not so coincidently they run out of capacity so much they have invested billions in deploying AWS. Trust me if Verizon is as greedy as people think they wouldn't waste billions deploying spectrum if 700 MHz was working just fine.
Category 8 will be here in just a few years and bring a 10X increase in capacity.
Yes IN A FEW YEARS. That's not TODAY. I a FEW YEARS when Cat 8 is deployed then they can think out unlimited data or at least caps that match what cable offers.