The fastest network yet
Verizon's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network already reaches half the country with towers that transmit data 10 times as fast as other cellular systems. The network has sufficient bandwidth to transmit large packets of data in solid chunks on pathways dedicated to specific types of information-data has its own "lane," and so on. For consumers, this means that starting a video stream on any LTE-ready phone or modem takes half the time of most 3G networks. But the implications can be even broader: LTE-enabled broadcast cameras, for example, can send live feeds back to the studio without a satellite hookup.