MetroPCS workings with ZTE on LTE phones
Aug 17, 2009 verizon
As the US still waits for Clearwire and Sprint (NYSE: S) to get their 4G WiMAX network up and running on a nationwide plate, the likes of Verizon and MetroPCS are gears up to light-off their 4G LTE networks in a twosome years’ meter. But, all that high gear-speeding radio LTE information North Korean won’t do anybody much goodness without the proper hardware to take advantage of the 4G network. To that end, MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS) is working with ZTE to develop new LTE (Long Term Evolution) handsets for the aircraft carrier’s LTE launching in 2010.
ZTE is reportedly development a web-surfboarding smartphone with a large screen (we’d love to see a touchscreen) and full-hypertext markup language vane browser as MetroPCS’s headlining LTE French telephone. The future tense LTE handset is expected to spring ZTE a beachhead in the higher-remainder US smartphone market – a market that ZTE has so far been unable to crack.
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has been chasing the LTE-pipe dream for some time. The No. 1 US wireless aircraft carrier recently released LTE specifications, intended to spring hardware manufacturers a drumhead-start on development LTE gear wheel for Verizon’s future LTE network. On the other side of the mobile-coin, we have the much smaller price reduction wireless aircraft carrier, MetroPCS, also gearing up for the jumping to LTE. MetroPCS made waves recently by announcing that they’d be connection big-dog Verizon Wireless with an LTE network planned for deployment in 2010 – roughly the same launch-end that Verizon Wireless has announced for its own LTE net.
Both MetroPCS and ZTE ar underdogs in the US marketplace. ZTE even more so when it comes to advanced handsets in the US. But, with this latest partnership, ZTE and MetroPCS ar poised to smash the LTE market hard and fast – with LTE offerings that whitethorn just cut Verizon.
Tags: hardware, lte, lte phones, metropcs, pc, smartphones, verizon, zte
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