Articles tagged with: Chief Technology Officer and Ims

Verizon Announces LTE Deployment Plans - Going Live in 2010

Verizon's CTO, Dick Lynch has outlined the company's plans to roll out an LTE upgrade for its wireless network. Lynch announced that Verizon Wireless has selected Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as primary network vendors for its initial LTE network deployments. These two vendors are expected to build the underlying infrastructure that will enable Verizon Wireless to become the first wireless company to offer commercial LTE-based service in the United States, starting in 2010.  more

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Alcatel-Lucent Wins US$6 Billion Network Contract

Alcatel-Lucent has won a contract which could be worth as much as US$6 billion over three years from Verizon Wireless. more

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Battery-life Emerging as Significant Chokepoint for Multimedia Handsets

Poor battery performance in mobile handsets may hinder the uptake of emerging media services by consumers, reports IMS Research. Operators and handset manufacturers are both counting on multimedia applications such as mobile TV, MP3 players and sat-nav to drive data services and ARPU. However, studies have consistently shown that consumers' primary requirements for their mobile phones are the voice and text services. more

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