How much headroom does Verizon Wireless have left in its 3G network?
But Verizon is working on its 4G network. This might suggest that Verizon is running out of 3G capacity. How long before Verizon’s 3G network is tapped out? We could go for years on our 3G architecture by adding capacity. And there are a lot of things you can do to add capacity. But they’re all more costly than moving to 4G, and they offer the same performance people experience today. And eventually, we think customers will find that insufficient for what they want to do in the future. We can continue to add capacity, but we think in the next two to three to four years that consumer expectations will outclass the 3G network. That’s why we are moving so quickly. We want to be there when the first wave of customers feels like 3G is not really fast enough. How are you planning to roll out the new networks? Will there be devices that handle both 3G and 4G? Yes, there will devices that do both. What is important to our customers is ubiquity even from year one. So where LTE is available init
