| Mobile Minute: Verizon Wireless has reiterated its plan to launch voice-over-LTE late this year. Speaking at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said that VoLTE is coming to Verizon in the fourth quarter. AT&T and T-Mobile US have already launched VoLTE in some markets. Sprint has said that VoLTE is not currently a priority. Verizon is the only carrier that has said it will try to launch nationwide VoLTE this year. Analysts have said that the CDMA carriers (Verizon and Sprint) are more likely to “turn on” VoLTE across the network, while the GSM carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile) may go market by market. Verizon is not ready to ask its customers to rely solely on its LTE network in the near future. Shammo also said yesterday that VoLTE-only phones on the Verizon network are more than a year away. For more on that see the video below. |
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