Verizon skews mobile WAN landscape

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE
ENTERPRISE
09/07/05
Today's focus: Verizon skews mobile WAN landscape

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Today's focus: Verizon skews mobile WAN landscape

By Joanie Wexler

So Verizon Wireless threw down the gauntlet and - at least
temporarily - has punctured the $80-per-month list-price barrier
to all-you-can-eat, high-speed mobile WAN data services. The
service provider last week dropped its CDMA-based EV-DO service
rates by 25% to about $60 per month with a two-year contract and
with an accompanying voice services contract.

The EV-DO mobile WAN service offers users about 300K to 500K
bit/sec, burstable to 2M bit/sec.

The move challenges the $80 flat fee also long offered by
Cingular and Sprint (now Sprint Nextel) for what the providers
call their "broadband" or "3G" mobile WAN services. Available
services have been a mix of Enhanced Data-rate for GSM Evolution
(EDGE), which operates from 100K to 130K bit/sec; Universal
Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), with bandwidth from
220K- to 320K-bit/sec, burstable to 384K bit/sec; and 1XRTT
services, operating from about 60K to 80K bit/sec.

Verizon also said it has launched additional EV-DO service in
seven more U.S. markets, including Denver, Louisville, Kentucky
and San Francisco. The company's service is reportedly now
available in 62 U.S. markets. Sprint began offering its EV-DO
services in July in about 30 markets and says it plans to nearly
double that coverage by early 2006.

At the end of the day, there are going to be lots of ways to get
mobile access, whether it is a traditional mobile WAN service
using one of the technologies described, a Wi-Fi hot spot,
forthcoming 802.16e WiMAX mobile services, something Qualcomm
and its acquiree, Flarion, are cooking up or something entirely
different.

Because there are many generations of mobile WAN networks in
various stages of deployment, be sure to protect yourself. Match
the appropriate device with the appropriate service. Find out
what speed your service will fall back to in non-coverage areas
using the same device.

You may wish to investigate a common package, if available, for
Wi-Fi and mobile WAN services, and ask about the provider's
plans for supporting Wi-Fi-to-cellular service handoffs. Such
support could come in handy in the not-to-distant future.

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To contact: Joanie Wexler

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology
writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most
of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer
networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles
published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future
article topics. Reach her at <mailto:joanie@jwexler.com>.
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