Verizon Wireless announced it would be availing 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) network during its CTIA conference on Wednesday. It plans to make the launch of its LTE across 38 main cities in the United States by the end of 2010.

The first roll out of the service will be covering about 110 million and to more Americans concentrating in the areas of the West Coast, and markets based in South and Northeast. In addition, the wireless company plans to launch the 4G LTE services across 60 major commercial airports as well.

LTE has now proved to be very crucial and a main component of mobile technologies of the next generation. Currently, WiMax and LTE are the two main 4G standard competitors in terms of mass deployment. Sprint, in the United States, is currently using WiMax for its enhanced 4G network, although all the other main carriers have embraced the superb LTE. Other parts of the world, including Europe, are about to upgrade into LTE standards in the line of HSUPA and GSM.

LTE is slowly going global, while most of the HSUPA, UMTS and GSM across many areas of the world. Significant of the Verizon move is that the company has been running on CDMA2000 levels that have been a problem to many phone manufacturers since most networks across the globe no longer run through CDMA.

It is the main reason why Verizon always has a carrier specific type of phone, such as the BlackBerry types, and one of the reasons why an iPhone by Verizon is very hard.

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