Verizon's LTE rollout is imminent, computers updated for 4G SIM cards

We just got some alleged (but very convincing) internal documents on Verizon's 4G plans, and it's mostly stuff we've already heard -- 5-12Mbps down, aircards before smartphones, and plans to roll out in 30 cities in 2010. That said, documents dated this week show the company's still on track to serve up 100 million connections by the end of the year, and a pair of independent tipsters have just sent us pics of Verizon computers ready and waiting for those precious LTE SIM cards. Furthermore, the docs also claim that the planned LTE isn't just fast, it's got a lag-destroying 30ms latency too, and fans of wider wireless computing can expect 4G tablets of some sort in 2011 as well. See all the goodies in our gallery below.

Verizon Wireless alleged internal 4G plans

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[Elliot Bridgewater Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:05PM]

This could technically be used to play multiplayer games with latencys like that. Nice.

[JonnyB Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:10PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater
Once my contract is over, I'm ganna have some Droid love in 2011

[liftedngifted1 Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:12PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater If you think $10 for Sprint's WiMax 4G is expensive, expect verizon's LTE to be around $30-$50....

[Scrubs Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:16PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater not with the transfer rate. I wish though

[MoonWalkerCTE Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:16PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater I'm playing multiplayer 3D shooting games on my iPhone 3GS on 3G with no problem here in Spain.

[Scrubs Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:18PM]

@MoonWalkerCTE I believe he's talking about WoW and Xbox games.

[MrFluffyThing Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:20PM]

@MoonWalkerCTE Reference to using the phone as a tethering option not as an App multiplayer platform...

[DefPoet Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:37PM]

@Scrubs
why just WOW and xbox ? PS3 and other PC games would benifit too.

[Ozzy Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:38PM]

@MrFluffyThing
I've tethered my laptop to my iPhone, then my xbox to my laptop (in Canada on fido). Worked great! Though it ate up my usuage!

[ckeegan Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:02PM]

@liftedngifted1 Highly doubtful. Sprint had no choice based on their pricing scheme. Kind of like the builder that says, "oh yeah, we can totally build your house for $50 per square foot. oh wait, you want windows? well, let's work up the math on that." Verizon will immediately release tiered data upon LTE launch, which will make way more sense than every single user paying into this same stupid unlimited bucket. Right now, I use like 2.5gb, yet I pay the same amount as someone using 6. Stupid.

[DefPoet Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:07PM]

@ckeegan
Verizon will rape their customers on pricing thats is a FACT
tiered data is fucking stupid and stifles innovation
netflix, hulu, youtube, music streaming will be hurt by tiered data

[MGore32 Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:10PM]

@ckeegan
iPhone 4G!!!

[trashk Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:12PM]

@DefPoet Hold up wha? People paying for what they use is bad how? How does this stifle anything? It mainly sounds like pricing is your issue not the tiers. I could be wrong.

[Templarian Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:14PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater, SC2 can play over 3G due to it's networking engine, but 4G definitely be far better.

[DefPoet Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:19PM]

@trashk
tiers are the problem because the companies that implement them set the levels low and charge out the ass when you go over
so you are correct but if there were no tier data we wouldn't have this problem

[cloud858rk Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:29PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater 30 millisecond latency? To where? If I'm connected to a sever in Japan, obviously I'm not going to have 30 millisecond latency.

[Elliot Bridgewater Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:31PM]

@cloud858rk Course, but you wouldn't if you were using a ground connection either.

[astrand1 Posted Jul 18th 2010 5:37PM]

@Scrubs yeah T-Mobile is already running 5Mbps on standard 3G in my area. When HSPA+ rolls out itll ramp existing devices to 7.2Mbps, and + devices will get up to 21 Mbps, in 2011 thatll ramp to over 40Mbps, thats 3G!!!!!!. People are hung up on the title 4G.......pretty funny

[That guy 2 Posted Jul 18th 2010 5:50PM]

@MGore32 Yah that's what I was thinking, iPhone 4g is imminent, I think apple realizes that A. People want 4g, B. AT&T sucks C. AT&T won't be able to make a good 4g network if they can't make a good 3G one, D. People prefer verizon, E. Kentucky fried chicken is tasty...for fast food

[KompressorV12 Posted Jul 18th 2010 5:51PM]

@liftedngifted1

LTE wont be a 30-50 dollar addon to the $30 a month, so your making it sound worse than it is, and again if u dont want it dont buy it

[One Love Posted Jul 18th 2010 6:20PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater : Another reason why sprint should release the Epic 4G right NOW! (slow ass motha....!)

[Setiri Posted Jul 18th 2010 6:55PM]

@liftedngifted1 I don't think that's necessarily the case. VZW is going to the new technology just like the transition from 2G to 3G. The prices didn't go much higher and in many cases actually fell when that occurred. Not to mention the competition in the market place will keep the prices in check to a degree (though don't get me started with text messaging rates.. yes, I know that's an example of an exception).

[sjavvaji Posted Jul 18th 2010 8:05PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater
hell yea...my FiOS 25/15 connection gives me a 26ms ping...now this...wireless ANYWHERE?

[ohnoitsaspider Posted Jul 18th 2010 11:50PM]

@Elliot Bridgewater I tethered my Nexus One in an HSPA+ area and played Halo internet multiplayer with no lag at all.

[SiXiam Posted Jul 19th 2010 12:34AM]

@liftedngifted1
So, you pulled that number from your butt....

[Dellibedaboss Posted Jul 19th 2010 6:03AM]

@liftedngifted1

What many of you seem to not understand -- or simply not know -- is that the extra 10 dollars for Sprint is not a wimax tax, but a premium data charge allowing for True unlimited data on both 3G and 4G. There are no softcaps at 5GB, and they will not begin to throttle your data usage for going over 5GB. In my first month with my Evo, I've used about 3.5GB of data... No tethering, no hotspot use yet. That will definitely increase once I get a Froyo ROM, root this baby and have free hotspot usage. Especially at work where I cannot use some devices on wifi because of the enterprise infrastructure and security is not supported. I'll chose unlimited data over tiered anyday for the fact that I don't have to keep tabs on my data usage. SPRINT FTW!

[MGore32 Posted Jul 19th 2010 12:11PM]

@That guy 2
So why am i in oblivion?

[longcat Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:07PM]

I knew UMTS would overtake CDMA2000. This is a pretty big move.

[DefPoet Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:31PM]

@longcat
cdma2000 will be here for a long time. Verizon plan to use it for voice for a long while while they build out the lte footprint. When the coverage reaches parity then cmda will be phased out

[bravokiloromeo Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:41PM]

@longcat
Potential Evo on VZW?

[edtate480 Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:38PM]

@bravokiloromeo Lol, it already is. There's a hack that allows the evo to use verizon's cellular and 3g towers instead of sprint's evdo. Here's teh link- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696073

[SolidSnake Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:07PM]

Huzzah!
A new age of data is upon us.

[pika2000 Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:11PM]

Yeah, it's nice, new, and shiny. But how about bandwidth cap? Pricing? Interoperability?

[bcporter13 Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:55PM]

@pika2000 if only the price would stay the same...

[Godfather Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:59PM]

@pika2000
Interoperability? Are you serious?
You will need to buy a new phone, period.

[pika2000 Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:03PM]

@Godfather
Interoperability between operators.

[DefPoet Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:13PM]

@pika2000
ATT and Verizon acting in harmony
will that would be great there is a better chance of winning the lotto, having sex with Megan fox/Johnny Depp, and growing super powers within 30 mins of each other

[PhoneTech Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:12PM]

Ummmmm... about time...

[iphoneuser Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:12PM]

Didn't Verizon drop the "wireless" a long time ago?
Is it possible this document might be false?

[Dale P Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:15PM]

@iphoneuser They still trade as Verizon Wireless, the parent (well, one of two) is Verizon Communications.

[Scrubs Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:21PM]

@iphoneuser it only dropped 'wireless' in its ads. The company is still Verizon wireless

[PhoneTech Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:13PM]

Android is amazing...

[strawe Posted Jul 18th 2010 4:06PM]

@PhoneTech
Android has nothing to do with this, you numpty.

[VAVA Mk 2 Posted Jul 18th 2010 5:18PM]

@PhoneTech

While true, -1 for irrelevancy to this discussion.

[NuklearPanda Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:14PM]

I remember when all the hype was 3G... Seems like it was just yesterday!

[VAVA Mk 2 Posted Jul 18th 2010 5:19PM]

@NuklearPanda

Yesterday being late 2006, of course :-)

[Scrubs Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:17PM]

4g Droid please!

[Nick Brown Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:17PM]

If Verizon's LTE network is truly that fast with those latency's, it iwll completely and utterly destroy Sprint/Clear's current 4G network. does anyone know what frequency this LTE network will run at?

[thefranchise Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:21PM]

@Nick Brown 700 mhz for both AT&T and Verizon

[Nick Brown Posted Jul 18th 2010 3:34PM]

@thefranchise

it just gets better! Since the Sprint/Clear WiMax runs at such a high frequency - the penetration of the service into buildings is...lame. I do enjoy using the 4G service on my EVO, but this LTE really seems like it is going to eclipse WiMax in every way. Unfortunately that probably includes price too. VZW and ATT are consistently more expensive than Sprint per month.