Verizon Wireless Rolls Out LTE Advanced for Faster Peak Data Speeds

Verizon Wireless announced LTE Advanced service promising 50 percent faster peak wireless data speeds in 461 cities. There’s no additional cost to customers for the software, which combines multiple channels to shoot data over the network more quickly, said Verizon in a Monday announcement. Verizon LTE Advanced uses carrier aggregation, which combines two or three channels of bandwidth into one larger channel to send data sessions over the most efficient route using a combination of 700 MHz, AWS and PCS spectrum, Verizon said. Customers will continue to experience typical download speeds of 5-12 Mbps, said the carrier, but two-channel carrier aggregation has shown peak download speeds of up to 225 Mbps, and three-channel carrier aggregation provides logged speeds greater than 300 Mbps.