Information on Verizon Wireless's plans for a 2010-2011 LTE roll-out has been no secret, as the company provided early demonstrations for the press and analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. Today, at the CTIA Wireless Enterprise and Applications show in San Francisco, a bit more information was provided on the cities that will have 4G coverage by the end of this year.
Lowell McAdam, president and chief operating officer of Verizon, told the CTIA audience that "a half a dozen" LTE-equipped smartphones and tablets would be shown at next year's CES keynote. He also added that Google CEO Eric Schmidt would be joining him for the product announcements on the stage in Las Vegas. It will be interesting to see if the Android LTE devices are smartphones or tablets, or both. After Dell's presentation of the WiMAX-equipped Inspiron Duo tablet at Intel's Developer Forum just a few weeks ago, will we see a CES faceoff of a 4G-Windows tablet vs. 4G-Android and 3G-iPad, with Steve Ballmer also scheduled for a keynote address?
Here is the list of cities in Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Initial Major Metropolitan Area Deployment. I'm happy to see that Silicon Valley won't have to wait for LTE as we have (still) for WiMAX, Verizon will be going head-to-head with Sprint & Clearwire here by the end of the year.
- Akron, Ohio
- Athens, Georgia
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Chicago, Illinois
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Columbus, Ohio
- Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Dallas, Texas
- Denver, Colorado
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Houston, Texas
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Los Angeles, California
- Miami, Florida
- Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Nashville, Tennessee
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- New York, New York
- Oakland, California
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Orlando, Florida
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Rochester, New York
- San Antonio, Texas
- San Diego, California
- San Francisco, California
- San Jose, California
- Seattle/Tacoma, Washington
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Tampa, Florida
- Washington, D.C.
- West Lafayette, Indiana
- West Palm Beach, Florida
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