Verizon Wireless doesn’t plan to rush to deploy a Voice-over-LTE...
Verizon Wireless doesn’t plan to rush to deploy a Voice-over-LTE service, said Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone. There’s no reason to force customers to VoLTE, he said at the Nomura Media & Telecom Summit Wednesday, while noting VoLTE would bring…
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low latency and better service quality vs. other VoIP services. Verizon will start deploying VoLTE on a large scale after customers get used to the service, he said. Meanwhile, as LTE and data roaming expands in the next couple of years, devices could support multiple spectrum bands, he said. While Wi-Fi offloading might be a good option for customers to use in places where capacity might be a constraint, it’s not a practical solution for macro network capacity management, he said. Melone claimed Verizon’s spectrum position allows its network to operate without extensive use of Wi-Fi. He also urged looking at every option for bringing more spectrum online for commercial use and increasing spectrum efficiency.