11:35 AM Waiting for more tidbits about next-gen technology from Verizon and others

Dan Jones, Mobile Editor

October 5, 2010

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CTIA: It's Still About LTE

11:35 AM -- The CTIA show in San Francisco this week is still all about Long-Term Evolution (LTE), for me at least.

I'm hoping to see more news from Verizon about its long-awaited LTE launch. There's a rumor that the operator will now launch the service in December. I'm hoping that CEO Lowell McAdam will talk more about tiered pricing for the new service.

We'll also see whether Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) will talk about TD-LTE in its much-promoted event with CEO Dan Hesse at the show.

Taken in combo with the upcoming 4G World show, I suspect we're coming to the end of the early hype cycle for LTE. Soon we'll get to compare what several networks around the world can actually do in the wild with the new technology.

What are you looking for from the CTIA show?

— Dan Jones, Site Editor, Light Reading Mobile

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Dan Jones

Mobile Editor

Dan is to hats what Will.I.Am is to ridiculous eyewear. Fedora, trilby, tam-o-shanter -- all have graced the Jones pate during his career as the go-to purveyor of mobile essentials.

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His perfectly crafted blogs, falling under the "Jonestown" banner, have been compared to the works of Chekhov. But only by Dan.

He lives in Brooklyn with cats.

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