Today marks one full year after Verizon first flipped the switch on LTE , with three hundred and sixty five days of 4G speeds for patrons in 39 markets. By the top of next week, Big Red will illuminate some more cities, bringing the complete number to 190, with access available to greater than 200 million Americans. Buried below the PR cake, however, is a fair juicer tidbit — two “hot new Xyboard Droid tablets from Motorola popping out this month.” And what might those be? Well, if this weekend’s accessory leak is any indication, the Xoom 2 is headed to VZW — before the year is out. And we are not surprised to look the Galaxy Nexus getting some love in addition, though you will have to make due with a “coming soon” release commitment for no less than a little while longer. Jump past the break for the PR.
Alabama, Arkansas, California . . . West Virginia, Wisconsin . . . and right through. On Dec. 15, greater than 200 million Americans might be ready to experience the blazingly fast speed and reliability of our 4G LTE network.
And today, on Dec. 5, we’re celebrating big time because it is the one-year anniversary of our initial deployment of 4G LTE. We started in 38 major markets, plus a 39th – West Lafayette, Indiana – the house of Purdue University. Our friends at Purdue were incredibly anxious to start out developing uses for 4G LTE on campus and we made sure they’d the resources to maintain their technology mojo humming.
Network Reach
Those initial 39 markets weren’t all small, after all . They were places like metro Ny city, San Francisco, Chicagoland and Atlanta. And on that first day, we covered greater than 110 million those with 4G LTE: an extraordinarily strong showing.
Here’s what leadership is ready. A few of our competitors available to buy focus on 4G LTE lots. What they’re planning, once they may need services in many cities, once they might get an abundance of 4G LTE smartphones and other devices so users can actually, well, use the network.
On Dec. 15, Verizon Wireless would be in 190 markets, covering greater than 200 million people, with numerous different devices. This means that you have got an amazing number of smartphones, tablets, mobile hotspots and USB modems to access the network.
We build and maintain the precise wireless networks on the planet. That’s why Popular Science and PCWorld have both recently acknowledged our 4G LTE network as one of the most great technological developments of 2011.
Hats off to the Verizon Wireless network engineers who’re building 4G LTE from the bottom up. Cheers to our major network infrastructure partners at Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Cisco.
It is time to blow out the candle and know that “Year 2″ could be twice as bright.
Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Facts
200 million Americans covered with 4G LTE (as of Dec. 15)
190 Markets covered (as of Dec. 15)
16 Devices currently available, including eight smartphones
Two hot new Xyboard DROID tablets from Motorola popping out this month
One anxiously awaited GALAXY Nexus smartphone running Android™ 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, from Samsung, coming soon
4G LTE Devices
Smartphones: HTC Rezound™, DROID RAZR™ by Motorola, Samsung Stratosphere™, Pantech Breakout™, DROID BIONIC™ by Motorola, Revolution™ by LG, DROID Charge by Samsung and ThunderBolt™ by HTC
Tablets: Samsung Galaxy Tab™ 10.1 with 4G LTE and Motorola XOOM™
Notebooks and Netbooks: HP® Pavilion dm1-3010nr Entertainment PC and Compaq™ Mini CQ10-688nr with built-in 4G LTE
Hotspots: Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MiFi™ 4510L and Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot SCH-LC11
Modems: Verizon Wireless 4G LTE USB Modem 551L and Pantech UML290 USB modem
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