Five More Markets Get Verizon LTE Tomorrow

CDMA has room for upgrade. They can use EVDO-B which they did NOT elect to use. Instead they only used EVDO-A.

they could have done it YEARS ago. Instead Cellco decided NOT to. Which they're going to end up doing again. They're spending this money now only in 10 years will have to reupgrade due to the technology will be worthless.

CDMA was NOT dead back then.

TMO-USA is the only company NOT setting up an LTE network yet.

CDMA was NOT dead back then. There was NOTHING to replace it except for Wi-Max that Sprint was trying to do but gave up on it due to they ran out of cash- the same as they're going to do before they rebuild their network countless times.

It would have made more since to upgrade to B and then to LTE-A instead of doing LTE and then LTE- A in 3 - 5 years.

And not all carriers will do it. TMO-USA is the only company NOT setting up an LTE network yet.

they could have done it YEARS ago. Instead Cellco decided NOT to. Which they're going to end up doing again. They're spending this money now only in 10 years will have to reupgrade due to the technology will be worthless.

T-Mobile is the only carrier here waiting to go to LTE. And quite frankly is because they really don't have much of a choice right now due to their financial situation. But they are by far the smallest of the 4, and have the least amount of users on a 3G capable smartphone at ONLY 10 million of their small 33ish million subs and the great majority of their network on GSM/GPRS still.

Instead of upgrading and upgrading HSPA+, it makes sense to go to LTE. Now for T-Mobile, the company where only 1/3 of the subscribers are on smartphones, it makes sense to stay on HSPA+ and continue on.

For carriers like VZW and AT&T with capacity constraints it makes more sense to go straight to LTE NOW. There is no significant difference between upgrading from LTE now and then later on going LTE-A vs. wasting money replacing needed equipment that AT&T would have to do going HSPA+ 84 which is the most competitive standard to what VZW and AT&T are deploying in LTE.

If Verizon wanted to be ridiculous and try and milk a *dead* technology, they could have EASILY deployed EVDO Rev. B, and deployed the software only aspects of it, which yield up to 9.3mbit/s, or even hardware for bonded carriers and near the same as HSPA 14.4.

But the significant advantages LTE offers over the highest speed HSPA+ rev. in the US are, MIMO which offers much better edge of cell speeds and better capacity, capability of also easily being upgraded to support and adapt to different spectrum constraints like Metro PCS running 1.4mhz slices of it, something you can't do with HSPA.

Clearly AT&T see's no value in wasting time going above HSPA+ 14.4 for the majority of their network.

For T-Mobile, no need to rush because their data demand isn't *that* high. But for the two big carriers, LTE gives them a fresh network and clear spectrum to deploy higher speed data services.

They are the largest pre-LTE network in the country only because a select few are offering. TMO is the only smart one to upgrade what they have and then move to the LTE-A when its a standard. Cellco is just going to spend more money by doing this and then they'll wait until the last minute to upgrade.

ITU states it's not even 4G.

They are the largest pre-LTE network in the country only because a select few are offering. TMO is the only smart one to upgrade what they have and then move to the LTE-A when its a standard. Cellco is just going to spend more money by doing this and then they'll wait until the last minute to upgrade.

They are the largest pre-LTE network in the country only because a select few are offering. TMO is the only smart one to upgrade what they have and then move to the LTE-A when its a standard. Cellco is just going to spend more money by doing this and then they'll wait until the last minute to upgrade.