14 DAY TRIAL // I had enough with all the Internet service providers that offer crappy web connections and charge their customers beyond belief. To make us all a bunch of happy web surfers, the people from Verizon are rumored to work on the launch of their next generation EV-DO network-the Revision A, a network that is supposed to compete directly with the EV-DO Rev A technology brought onto the mobile market by their fiercest competitor, the mobile carrier Sprint.
To have a chance in this competition, the Verizon version of the Rev A will have to reach speeds above the ones already offered by Sprint in 10 US cities, some of them being San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, where the Sprint users are able to upload data on the Internet with speeds of up to 300-400 kbps and to download with 450-800 kbps.
Pretty much if you think about the speeds we were able to reach a few years ago when the dial-up was the latest craze :).
As the rumors say, Verizon will also launch their Rev A upgrade on Friday, also in 10 markets across the United States with two of the cities included in this release being Sacramento and Salt Lake City.
However, even if their upgraded EV-DO network will probably get live very soon, Jeffrey Wilson from Verizon Wireless has declared that their Rev A is already being used on a number of markets for a few months: "we've had a number of communities lit up with Rev. A for a few months, and expect to introduce a first PC card in the coming weeks. We won't be announcing a launch of Rev. A until we hit a significant number of markets up and running, though".
The more interesting thing in all this story is the fact that together with the release of the Rev A, Verizon will also offer to their customers the Aircard 595 from Sierra Wireless that will let them connect their PCs to the web, a card that will be available for 150 $ if you will accept to sign a two year agreement with the mobile carrier or for 270 $ if you like the retail way of shopping better.