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Verizon Ditches CDMA, Snubs WiMAX, Chooses LTE For 4G
Verizon Wireless this morning formally acknowledged what most of the industry already had assumed - it's forsaking CDMA, ignoring WiMAX and plans to use Long Term Evolution (LTE), the technology being developed as part of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), as its 4G technology.

…LTE is promised to have far greater bandwidth and range than the current fixed WiMAX, and it appears to be on track for the same once mobile WiMAX is finalized.

What LTE promises is: An instantaneous downlink peak data rate of 100 Mb/s within a 20-megahertz downlink spectrum allocation (5 bps/Hz); the data rate will be maintained while moving at speeds as fast as 500 kilometers per hour, depending on frequency band; 100 Mb/s throughput maintained with cells reaching as far as 5 kilometers, with slight degradation up to 30 kilometers and possible coverage of as much as 100 kilometers.