"Verizon seems keenest on LTE and is promising to introduce it by around 2010. Shades of the over-optimism which surrounded 3G there."
- I've worked for VZW behind the scenes and I definitely wouldn't describe them as 'over-optimistic'. Rather the opposite - they're some of the most hard-headed pragmatists I've ever worked with and it's damn hard to sell them on anything without it being minutely examined , tested and all the biz spreadsheets run - if you get through that it's followed by what can only be described as a corporate colonoscopy by the VZW legal department. Hell, they grossed $93.4bn last year - they might be a pain to do business with but they're no fools.