4G shocker! The good people of Boston enjoy Verizon's trial LTE network

You know what makes us happy? Pizza. But a close second has to be 4G technology, which makes us truly envy the Bostonians who were treated to a sample of Verizon's trial LTE deployment in the friendly confines of a downtown pizza joint last month. Big Red filmed the event -- and while the whole thing comes off a little bit like a carefully-orchestrated PR stunt, it's hard to argue with nearly 10Mbps down and over 2Mbps on the upstream. That's good stuff that should have Sprint, Clearwire, and the rest of the players on notice -- assuming Verizon's network holds up under the crushing pressure of commercial availability once thousands of rowdy Harvard students start hammering it, of course. Follow the break for the full video.

[Don Corleone Posted May 13th 2010 8:43AM]

I was in the bah near the fahm talking to my fahther about the cah when the bahtender said they had 4G. 4G, I asked. Yah, he said. So I downloaded some porn. True story.

[Mr Itcher Posted May 13th 2010 9:36AM]

@Don Corleone

You can stop now.

[Mr Itcher Posted May 13th 2010 9:35AM]

There is no good pizza availible in downtown boston, as any new yorker will happily remind you, maybe in the North End and a few select places in Medford.

[SpeedyJDK Posted May 13th 2010 11:49AM]

That's even slower than 3G, running 16Mbit, and is ready to launch at 75mbit here.
When they announced 4G years ago, they promised us 1Gbit/s. Now, WHERE IS THAT ? :D

[Bipolarbear Posted May 13th 2010 4:22PM]

Except that almost all Harvard students live in Cambridge (for that is where the central campus is located), not Boston. They will not be experiencing this any time soon.