14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless launched in December last year its 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) network in a number of 38 markets around the United States, and the carrier is expected to make the services available in far more cities during the ongoing year.
A list of markets that would enjoy access to the LTE network from Verizon during the initial phase of the roll-out is available below, courtesy of Droid-Life.
By the end of 2011, Verizon Wireless is expected to bring the 4G goodness to a number of around 140 markets around the country. Moreover, the carrier would aim at covering as much of the US as possible by the end of 2013.
The carrier aims pretty high with the said 140 LTE markets by end of the ongoing year, but the fact that it already delivered 4G to 38 markets, and that it aims at covering 49 cities more with the initial 2011 roll-out should help it achieve its goal.
With the fast LTE deployment, Verizon Wireless is aiming at becoming the largest 4G services provided in the United States.
The wireless carrier announced last year that it aims at expanding the 4G service as fast as possible to its entire 3G footprint. It should reach its goal in about three years or so.
Moreover, the carrier is also aiming at attracting as many users as possible to its 4G service, and it announced during CES 2011 a wide range of new devices that would offer support for its LTE network.
Among these devices, we can count smartphones like the HTC ThunderBolt, LG Revolution, or the Motorola DROID Bionic, as well as tablet PCs like the Motorola XOOM, or the Samsung Galaxy Tab. A series of USB modems was unveiled as well, along with other devices.
More of these would certainly arrive in the not too far future. In the meantime, have a look at the list of cities set to taste Verizon LTE during the carrier's initial roll-out phase for 2011: Mobile, Montgomery; Alabama Little Rock; Arkansas Colorado Springs; Colorado Gainesville, Lakeland-Winter Haven, Pensacola, Sarasota-Bradenton, Tallahassee; Florida Augusta; Georgia Honolulu, Kahului-Wailuku, Lahaina; Hawaii Boise-Nampa; Idaho Carbondale-Marion; Illinois Wichita; Kansas Baton Rouge, Hammond; Louisiana Detroit, Flint; Michigan Fayetteville-Lumberton, Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, Raleigh-Durham, Wilmington; North Carolina Dayton-Springfield, Ohio Tulsa, Oklahoma Erie, State College; Pennsylvania Charleston, Columbia, Greenville-Spartanburg, Hilton Head; South Carolina Sioux Falls, South Dakota Chattanooga, Clarksville, Cleveland, Kingsport, Johnson City, Bristol, Knoxville, Memphis; Tennessee Beaumont-Port Arthur, Bryan-College Station; Texas Provo-Orem, Salt Lake City-Ogden; Utah Centralia, Olympia; Washington Charleston; West Virginia Madison, Milwaukee; Wisconsin