It will take MetroPCS an additional four to six months to...
It will take MetroPCS an additional four to six months to fully launch Voice over LTE (VoLTE) in its 14 LTE markets, CEO Roger Linquist said Thursday at a Goldman Sachs investor conference. MetroPCS needs that time to grapple with…
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technical issues related to VoLTE deployment, he said. “This is not your grandfather’s Buick,” Linquist said. “This is a different animal.” The carrier first deployed VoLTE technology in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market, where the company first noticed it needed to make changes in base station optimization. Despite the needed changes, customers using VoLTE in Dallas-Ft. Worth have experienced call quality that is better than on the existing CDMA service, Linquist said. MetroPCS now has about 1 million LTE subscribers, which is up from the 700,000 the carrier released in July. MetroPCS’s transition into LTE has prompted increased urgency in the company’s need for spectrum, and it will continue to look at new spectrum acquisitions, Linquist said. The company expects to expand its catalog of LTE-capable phones to six models before the end of the year, including the Samsung Galaxy III, he said.