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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Verizon Could Be Biting Off More Than They Chew With Their LTE Plans
There?s been more than a little bit of Verizon news making the rounds today, and on the surface, it all seems like good stuff. Verizon will cover 200 more markets with LTE by the end of the year? Awesome! The next iPhone Verizon carries will probably have LTE? Not exactly a huge leap there, considering a LTE-packing iPad will hit Verizon shelves this Friday, but what the hell ? I?m in. But let?s take a step back for a second: how well will their network hold up under that kind of strain? Verizon wants to double the size of their LTE network by the end of the year, and in all likelihood will have a huge LTE flagship device in the form of the new iPhone. I don?t doubt for a second that Verizon will make good on their plans to expand their LTE network by leaps and bounds, but the carrier's recent LTE hiccups don't fill me with much confidence.