Verizon CTO: Working Through 4G Device Rollout Problematic, But Still Committed to First Half of 2011
Looks like we just got an indirect “reason” from the horse’s mouth. Verizon’s chief technology officer Tony Malone – speaking at Credit Suisse’s Convergence conference – kind of spilled the beans about why the HTC Thunderbolt has faced so many delays.
He didn’t mention the phone by name, but he says they have always been committed to bringing devices out before the second half of this year. He’s right: you can’t really blame Verizon for the amount of time it’s taking them to deploy their first 4G phone when they didn’t give a definite release date to begin with.
The technology they want to deploy is so far ahead of its time, it seems, as Verizon could have even waited well beyond this year to announce plans to carry LTE devices. They are the only major network with a 4G network of its kind.
Unfortunately for them, the industry’s “4G” crave has blown up into an uncontrollable monster and we all know you can’t sleep in this game. Their hand was forced and they’re doing the best they can. I have no qualms with that, and neither should anyone else. [via Droid-Life]