AT&T, Verizon 4G Wireless Technology to Be Dominant by 2012
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Long-term evolution, the high-speed mobile Internet standard used by AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless in the U.S., will become the dominant fourth-generation network technology worldwide by 2012, a research firm predicted.
Next year, there will be more than twice as many customers for LTE as for WiMax, an alternative 4G technology used by Sprint Nextel Corp., researcher IHS ISuppli said today. In 2014, there will be 303.1 million LTE users worldwide, almost ten times as many customers as WiMax, IHS ISuppli said.