Verizon CTO Dick Lynch (yeah...) said yesterday that LTE, the next step in wireless broadband, will be starting service sometime next year. Of course, that allows them up to December 31st, 2009 to implement this, but I'm still happy to hear it. And they plan on using the 700 MHz broadcast band they purchased the rights to this year to do it. This will allow the signal to travel through buildings without much impedement.
I have been hoping for this kind widespread broadband connectivity for some time and it looks like 2009 is the year all this will come to fruition. And coupled with Clearwire's WiMAX and the proposed Wi-Fi from the FCC, it looks like there will be a good deal of choice. Now we just have to hope that these services will be competitive with each other pricewise.
Fingers crossed.
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