4G technology

From what Verizon has said this week about its plans to build out a new wireless network based on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, its 4G technology appears to be on a collision course with the WiMAX technology pushed by Clearwire and Sprint.

Despite the slide in global economic conditions, Verizon Wireless says it intends to deploy a 4G wireless network in the United States, beginning in 2010.

To make this happen, the nation's largest wireless carrier has tapped Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson to serve as the primary vendors of infrastructure equipment based on a high-speed wireless technology called Long Term Evolution (LTE), said Dick Lynch, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Verizon Wireless.