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November 29, 2007
Verizon Wireless! You Beautifully Insane Peeps!
If you've been following the mobile/cellular space, the last 48 hours should make your head hurt.
First, Verizon Wireless announces that they're going open standards in 2008, allowing people to bring their own (tested and approved, however) devices to the network, and allow third-parties to deliver any apps they want over their network.
Then they wait twenty-four hours to let the "pundits" grumble and whine about how being open doesn't make a whole lotta sense because they have CDMA-blah-blah, CDMA-is-not-GSM-blah-blah, this is just a cynical ploy by The Man, blah-blah...
Today Verizon Wireless announces they're going with LTE, the broadband "open standard" successor to GSM, with trials starting in 2008 -- and every vendor under the sun agreeing to pump out LTE equipment in 2009.
LTE, on a good day, can deliver anywhere from 100 to 144 Mbps to a handset. TO A HANDSET! Currently, Verizon FiOS is "only" delivering 50 Mbps over fiber to the home (well, plus TV and voice, but voice is noise compared to the bandwidth you get from everything else).
(Of course, there's this little issue of writing off all that CDMA/EVDO equipment and running two networks in parallel, but that's not my problem :)
Yes, I will be more than happy to carry around another phone on a "trial," if it is a Verizon Wireless LTE phone... (Hint-hint)
Posted by dmohney at November 29, 2007 11:52 AM