Verizon Wireless Predicts Most of its Data Traffic Will Soon Be on LTE

By David Tobia
October 12, 2012

More than a third of Verizon’s data traffic travels on its fastest LTE network. The company says that within the next few months, more than half of its user data will travel on this network.
It took 3G eight years to account for half of Verizon data, but 4G will supplant Verizon’s slower networks in just about two years.
Eleven of Verizon’s 89 million customers had access to 4G LTE coverage as of last quarter. “In a move to get more devices onto the network, Verizon announced in June a shift to new shared data plans,” reports AllThingsD. “Such plans, also offered by AT&T, allow customers to share a pool of gigabytes across multiple devices.”
After Verizon reaches its yearly goal of 400 4G LTE markets on October 18, the company will focus on using LTE Advanced to bolster its capacity to match its growth in coverage area. The company’s LTE network covers 75 percent of the American population, according to Verizon.
Verizon projects that its LTE network will cover voice as well as data by the end of 2013, according to CTO Nicola Palmer, who notes that the company’s network is currently the largest LTE network in the world.

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