Verizon has spent a lot of time wheelin' and dealin' over the past two years in order to acquire large swaths of unused bandwidth around the country. And now the fruits of that labor may finally be making their way to customers in the largest metro areas.
Verizon has built a powerful and vast new LTE network that encompasses dozens of large urban markets. The company has spent over billions to acquire unused AWS bandwidth, which has to triple its capacity in cities like New York, Chicago, and Atlanta.
Customers in most areas east of the Mississippi will have access to 40 MHz of LTE spectrum, compared to 20Mhz network have had access to up until now. In addition, the company's patchwork approach of purchases and swaps has boosted network capacity in western locales like San Francisco and Los Angeles by a non-shabby 150%.
The speeds new network have already been spotted in the NYC metro area over the past month where download speeds of 80 Mbps have been recorded. The new swaths of spectrum could theoretically support 100-150 Mbps speeds, though those speeds are unlikely, particularly as more devices gain access.
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