Verizon Speeds Up its CDMA Network

The USA based Verizon Wireless is launching its next network upgrade, with a CDMA 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) platform. The network enhancements will launch initially in Mass., including Boston and its suburbs, the Richmond and Hampton Roads, Va. areas, Chicago and its suburbs and including Gary, Ind., Salt Lake City and other cities in Utah, as well as in Florida throughout the state's entire existing area of Verizon Wireless' wireless broadband network.

Verizon Wireless customers in those areas will have data uplink speeds significantly faster than the company's award-winning national EV-DO network.

Customers in enhanced coverage areas can take advantage of upload speeds that are five to six times faster than with the company's existing wireless broadband network, while interacting with Web-based applications with improved latency for a better customer experience.

For example, BroadbandAccess customers in enhanced wireless broadband coverage areas can expect average download speeds of 450-800 kilobits per second (kbps) and average upload speeds of 300-400 kbps, which translates to downloading a 1 Megabyte e-mail attachment in less than 15 seconds and uploading the same size file in less than 25 seconds."

Posted to the site on 2nd February 2007