Verizon Begins LTE User Trials in Five Cities

Verizon Wireless has officially completed the technical trials of its new 4G LTE network, and is now moving on to "friendly user trials" in five cities.

Verizon made the announcement this week in a conference call with hardware and software partners who will be designing devices for the 4G network, which Verizon is building with the valuable 700MHz spectrum that it bought in the big FCC auction in 2008.

David Clevenger, executive director of public affairs at Verizon Wireless, stated, "Technical trials are staged [and] tiered in accordance with industry standards. They’re [now] completed."

The technical trials had been taking place throughout 2010 in two cities, Boston and Seattle. In a video report on the Boston trials, which Verizon posted on YouTube (see below), the speeds reported were 5-12 Mbps for downloads and 2-5 Mbps for uploads. That’s a significant jump from 3G speeds, which typically top out at 1.5Mbps down and 0.5 Mbps up.

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