Dan Bowman, my husband and a 20 plus-year veteran of the cell phone industry said, “Nobody has built out a 4G network yet. There might be instances of the technology in place, but Verizon only has so many [cell phone] sites. It’s going to take them a while to be able to offer this service to everyone.”
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal at the CTIA Wireless 2009 tradeshow, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said his company’s new 4G network could bring wireless internet to the entire country.
He also said it could bring Apple’s iPhone, currently only available from AT&T, to that new network.
Read the rest of this “Games N Gadgets” Charlotte Observer blog post here.
This article appears in Apr 14-21, 2009.
