Peek at the Future: Verizon Wireless Boston 4G LTE Trial

[willabarcelo]

fantastic video, I would love to see more! Take Care

[greekthuglife69]

Check out YouTube by greekthuglife69 see how Verizon treats their workers you already know how they treat u

[airfoemoe]

Knowing verizon, it will cost extra like the mobile hotspot feature.

[rester555]

It's high latency already. They're download/upload rates boast of 5-12 Mbps. That's 10 times slower than what Yota (Russian based cellular provider) provides, which is currently at 100 Mbps.

[alt4960]

zero latency. I saw a test.

[anon287912]

@alt4960 Wow, now I know everything I read on the internet is true.

[xrgt505]

Looks great if you life in certain areas. If you are one of us country folk (eg eastern NM) it is just a continuum of greater exclusion of millions from good wifi.

To woo a rural customer permanently away from their present isp with dialup service should be, comparatively, a pretty easy task - one would think! But I doubt seriously many will ever see it unless visiting a large metropolitan area.

neat technology, though...

[AKATECHSUPPORT]

once this comes out

broadband at home will get faster :D

i get exactly 8.55mbps at home

[funnyking123]

so REALLY WHENE DOES 4g come out for verizon???

[ak110707]

Good job Verizon!!! Keep it up. I'm glad you chose LTE over WI-MAX. :) props.

[kigilbeigh]

Hopefully they increase the bandwidth also, having to rely on just 5gb a month is driving me insane. D:

[Marado1986]

Sorry but I did not understand why so slow, in Portugal we already had test up to 320mb/s DL , and we want to get to 1gb/s. that is LTE by Nokia Siemens Networks........

[videphillynow]

um,,,,, show us the folks in the pizza place surf, we just here them saying "It's fast..."

[oobieG]

Great stuff

[outpostprime]

What is the delay on that connection? Sat connections have a latency of like 800~1500ms. I have a feeling LTE isn't much better. Figure gaming and other delay based applications are impossible to use with this. Bandwidth isn't speed, latency is. A 56k ISDN/Frame can load a page just as fast as a 15Mb cable.

Also wonder if it has the 5GB cap on data transfer. Whats the point of having a faster more expensive connection if it's capped.

I'm sticking to my Fiber :P.

[techdojoDOTorg]

There's only one *true* way to test this. You should deploy it all across my city and give me free access.

[Meowwang]

LTE = 3GPP Long Term Evolution = 3.9G

Not 4G at all.

[tuberhubris]

These kind of speeds are old hand in Europe. Are we supposed to be grateful now, 2010, that they are offering it to the public? and with what, twisted, hidden charges & taxes bills at the end of the month? Geeek, PLEEEASE.

[johnpa2006]

Deploy LTE in the NY/NJ and rest of the tri-state area.

once a lot of people start to pound the network, lets see how it performs

with everyone on it, as in "real world usage"

Supposedly LTE lets many more calls be addressed by one tower that

could be handled at one time with CDMA towers.

Come on LTE !!! I'm rootin for ya !!

[hwertz]

@johnpa2006, when I saw earlier press releases regarding Verizon's work on LTE, the test markets cities listed were Minneapolis, Columbus Ohio, and northern New Jersey. So they are doing SOME testing in that area.

[yosoygringo1]

@johnpa2006

I absolutely agree with what you said about how the performance is going to go to pot once they load the network. Verizon/Comcast/TWC all reinvest their income in marketing/sales and very rarely actually build the infrastructure to support the swarms of new customers. They're advertising this, the 4G LTE, to rural consumers specifically.

FIOS speeds decrease by "an order of magnitude" during the day because the servers are too heavily loaded.

[rmccorma]

too bad Verizon costs so much more than Sprint

[jprashkumar]

Wonderful. Is it powered by Alcatel-Lucent LTE solution?

[pthorsteinn]

Great. Now bring FiOs to West LA!!!

[pll25]

I wanna try it...

[17R3W]

That is quick for uploading!

That may be great for video streaming.

[Blueflagproductions]

the bulldozers are for the buckets of money they are going to take from there customers...this is why I REALLY want to leave you verizon. I love how you dont even show once what the "customer" uploads downloads or watches! Nice actors..not

[RobsMemoryLane]

This isn't going to replace my FiOS, but would still be nice to have if the price is low enough.

[festaazul]

BU rocks!...that's right in front of my school

[dmonty83]

Latency will be low, how low I do not know, but I have been to quite a few VZW seminars and they are very pleased with their real world results.

[akarpo]

cool stuff. now if only we could get a LTE/CDMA hybrid iPhone on VZW

[cshivs]

@akarpo Who the hell would want an iPhone? You obviously haven't seen a Droid yet, let alone Windows 7 Mobile...

[tcobb12]

my question is what will the latency be on LTE...

[ryo1999]

@tcobb12

10ms

[Valicore]

@tcobb12 It can be as low as 5-10ms - at least 4 times less than what current 3G latency is.

[riemanni]

@tcobb12 It's low-latency technology. Pretty much same as Wi-fi I think.

[hwertz]

@tcobb12 I've heard on the order of 10ms. Of course there then is the latency of your actual wired connection (it's about 80ms from here in the midwest to California for instance).

[max8987]

@tcobb12

approx. 1/4th that of 3g latency