[137828] in North American Network Operators' Group
VZW LTE provisioning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Feb 20 11:26:43 2011
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:26:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is there anyone on the list who can comment, on- or off-list, for-attribution
or not, on what kind of job Verizon Wireless has done provisioning the data
backbone for their new LTE "4G"[1] rollout?
Given the fact that it is at 700MHz and will therefore have *substantially*
better building penetration, and the fact that -- due to the Google imposed
"any device, any app" restrictions the FCC placed on their license -- there
is quite a bit higher possibility that we'll see better device competition
on this service than we've seen before...
the odds that we'll have to deal with it, as operators of larger end-networks,
seem pretty high. Knowing what we're getting into would be nice. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
[1] The ITU has said that none of {HSDPA,LTE,WiMax} qualifies for "4G"
designation by the standards, of which they (I understand) are the
promulgating agency.
