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Article: First-mover advantage: with 50 EV-DO markets launched, Verizon Wireless' broadband deployments are significant. Can other U.S. operators catch up?(Service Providers)(evolution data only)
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- Wireless Week
- Article date:
- July 15, 2005
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When it comes to providing high-speed wireless data, Verizon Wireless clearly sports the first-mover advantage. The carrier has made its wireless broadband EV-DO network available in more than 50 major metropolitan markets and is on track to hit its goal of coveting one-half of the U.S. population by year-end.
Although Verizon's competitors are gearing up for their own deployments--Sprint says it will have 60 markets live with EV-DO by early next year--they are still months behind Verizon, which launched its first markets--San Diego and Washington, D.C.--in October 2003. Sprint this month started offering EV-DO service in major airports and business districts in ...