Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg says his firm will begin deployment of its fourth-generation Long Term Evolution network "later this year with a few commercially-ready markets and will roll it out to 25 or 30 markets in 2010."
But the infrastructure only is "just one piece of the puzzle," he says. "It's the combination of devices, applications and network capabilities that will really cause this market to take off," Seidenberg says. "No single company will be able to envision, let alone provide, every aspect of this whole 4G ecosystem on its own."
That is a primary reason why the 4G business model will be different from what we have seen with 2G networks, with 3G being someplace in between. Where 2G was largely a vertically-integrated business, 3G has been more open, at least to the extent that broadband access to the Internet itself is an "open" environment.
The 4G model inevitably will be more of an "ecosystem" approach, in part because many applications are seen as "machine to machine," and in part because device and application openness will be much more central ways of creating new applications.
http://sev.prnewswire.com/telecommunications/20090401/NY9285501042009-1.html
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Verizon to Activate 25 to 30 LTE Markets in 2010
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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While Verizon and other LTE carriers are squabbling over "puzzle" pieces with overhead heavy partners like Qwest (cough*bad*QOS*cough), Sprint is rolling ahead with wireless data just as they did in the early days of digital cellular networks.
If Sprint is able to get greater than 1Mbps handsets on the market in enough cities like Denver (where 3G coverage is still spotty and crowded, & Cable has limited last mile penetration) before their competitors at Verizon, it likely will give them the financial boost necessary to garner that golden smartphone market share that has long been the domain of AT&T/Apple.
Depending on price-with-contract, I may be buying an HTC Evo 4G with Android and HDMI-out. Whether I'll ever get a DVR, 3D game system, and projector in my phone remains to be seen.
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