Well, I think the announcement will come this Tuesday. The long and rumored of the I-Phone coming to Verizon is becoming a reality. How, many users will defect who knows, but it should be interesting. AT&T is doing everything to build capacity into it’s network both at the macro, but also by adding capacity from an in-building perspective. Hence, why building out DAS in huge veneues in 2010, so as add capacity. The reality is the I-Phone, will be CDMA more than likely with no GSM (global), capabilities. This is not a big deal in my opinion, as in 2007 when the CEO of Verizon met with CEO of Apple, the concern was Verizon had not really adopted the global standard of GSM. But I think Apple failed to realize all about the network, you can have the most sexy device in the world, but if you network cannot handle the capacity, so what. Mentioning GSM, Verizon had dual mode CDMA/GSM phones, but this probably did not make sense with the early introduction of the 3G I-Phone. Well that is all changing with LTE, of which now pushes GSM as somewhat legacy, CDMA (Verizon. As stated expect Verizon to roll-out with the I-Phone as CDMA, skip over perhaps a dual model CDMA/GSM, and then once Verizon’s LTE network is fully built out offer a I-Phone as CDMA/LTE.

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– On December 5,2010, Verizon Wireless launched it’s4G LTE network in 38 markets covering 100 million people in the United States supporting loaded network download speeds of 5-12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2-5 Mbps.
– On January 6, 2011, Verizon Wireless announced that it plans to add more than 100 markets covering 175 million people by the end of 2011, 2/3 of the U.S. population covered by mid-2012, and their entire nework footprint by the end of 2013.