Verizon Wireless said it will spend $1 billion on building out the wireless broadband net. Informed industry sources speculated that another 7,000 to 10,000 bases stations will likely be installed in coming months. Lucent Technologies Inc. deployed the network's hardware in Washington, while Nortel Networks is handling San Diego. Both companies may continue their respective relationships in the ongoing rollout of the network.
The Verizon rollout represents the largest deployment of Qualcomm's EV-DO 3G wide-area network. Smaller iterations of the wireless architecture are already in use in Korea and Japan. Moreover, the Verizon Wireless service sets the stage for a full-fledged 3G battle between EV-DO and W-CDMA, a competing service in use primarily in Europe, but also likely to eventually be rolled out by Verizon Wireless competitors in the U. S.
Verizon Wireless, which is jointly owned by Verizon and Vodafone, will offer supplementary features to the service, including its "Get It Now" applications for gaming, music, video, video messaging, and other multimedia applications. Yet the company is clearly targeting corporate enterprise markets with the new service. In a statement, it said: "Enterprise customers can access information when they are on the road--at customer locations, at job sites, in taxis, or on trains--faster than with any competing technology. With data transmissions bursts up to above 2 megabits per second, BroadbandAccess customers could download a one megabyte e-mail attachment, or receive three digital pictures, in less than 30 seconds."
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