Verizon to exam modernized network this summer

LAS VEGAS - Verizon Wireless plans to exam an advanced, high-speed wireless network in 6 markets this summer and hopes to launch the make use of in up to thirty markets this year, Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone said.

The try of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc aims to be one of the worlds initial mobile operators to set up a high-speed network baseda new record well known as Long Term Evolution (LTE).

"When we"re ready with the twenty-five to thirty markets, we"ll majority expected launch in one fell swoop," Melone told Reuters forward of the CTIA annual wireless traffic show in Las Vegas.

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Verizon Wireless plans for the network to yield coverage for a intensity 100 million people by year-end, though a little analysts have pronounced the aim is unrealistic.

Melone is assured the user will launch the networkschedule, even though it is still conducting laboratory tests of apparatus from suppliers Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.

Verizon Wireless will begin this summer with "friendly user trials" in about half a dozen markets to have certain the make use of works, he said.

Smaller opposition Clearwire is rising the high-speed wireless make use of one marketplace at at time, but Melone pronounced he wants to turnthe Verizon Wireless make use of all at once in as most places as possible.

He pronounced the initial consumer inclination ancillary the network will be wireless interpretation cards for computer Internet access. The association expects the initial LTE handsets will be accessible around the center of 2011.

In sequence to have the network ready, Verizon Wireless is adding a little hardware to the wireless towers and beefing up the backhaul connected connectors to those towers.

While Melone pronounced the network set up would not significantly enlarge Verizons collateral spending, he remarkable the association has outlayed $9 billion shopping airwaves it expects to make use of for the network.

Verizon Wireless, the U.S. industry leader, is construction the LTE network well forward of the greatest rival, ATT, a move that a little analysts contend could give it an value over the disdainful provider for Apples iPhone.

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ATT argues that it does not need to move as fast in construction a new network since it still has a lot of room to ascent the record it now uses.

T-Mobile USA, a section of Deutsche Telekom, uses a record identical to ATT"s. Sprint Nextel, the No. 3 U.S. mobile make use of and a 56 percent-owner of Clearwire, is charity high-speed services utilizing Clearwires network.