Talk:Verizon (mobile network)

message: Key people in the infobox is outdated, as Manon Brouillette resigned from Verizon and is no longer CEO of Verizon Consumer (reporting by Bloomberg confirms the resignation).
 
Would editors be willing to delete Manon Brouillette from the infobox based on this new information? 
 
I work for Verizon and have a conflict of interest, so I ask others to make edits on my behalf. Thank you, VZEric (talk) 12:39, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @VZEric Deletion completed. Cheers.  Duke Gilmore (talk) 03:38, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for the swift update! There are three other Wikipedia pages that also have this outdated information. You can see those requests at Verizon Communications, Jean-François Bouchard, and the Manon Brouillette article on French Wikipedia (if you happen to know French, that is). Would you be able to review those as well? Thanks for considering. VZEric (talk) 21:55, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Key people update 

message: Hello editors, in recent years Verizon has been making updates to its 5G network and these updates have not yet been reflected in this Wikipedia article. I would like to propose a few additions, with the draft text below. My proposed edits to the Introduction and Network section include:
*Add to the third paragraph of the Introduction: "In 2020, 230 million people were able to access Verizon's 5G, or fifth-generation, dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) technology network; by 2022, 175 million people were covered by Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband, which uses mmWave technology."
*Remove from the Introduction: "4G LTE" since it is no longer a comprehensive description.
*Remove from the Introduction: "which in the second half of 2020 won or tied for top honors in each category of the RootMetrics RootScore Reports." because it is not current and is about Verizon's 4G LTE network, not the current network that utilizes 5G and 4G LTE. 
*Add "5G and" to the opening sentence of the Network section and change "network" to "networks".
*In the opening sentence of the Network section, change "claims" to "claimed" for grammar purposes.
*Remove "(henceforth branded by Verizon as "5G Ultra-wideband|Ultra Wideband")" from the Network section as this became redundant with the new edits.
*Add to the end of the second to last paragraph in the Network section: "As of December 2020, more than 200 million people were able to access Verizon’s 5G network through Verizon’s DSS-enabled service, which uses lower spectrum bands that are shared between 5G and 4G LTE. Verizon reached 200 million people covered for its Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband, which uses mmWave and mid-band spectrum. Verizon said it would activate 100 MHz of C-Band spectrum, increasing from 60 MHz of spectrum.
:*Please note that for this addition, I have several alternative sources including from Light Reading and the Ames Tribune.
 
Introduction
 
Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless. In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the divisions Verizon Consumer and Verizon Business, and stopped using the Verizon Wireless name. Verizon is the second-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 143.3 million subscribers at the end of Q4 2022.
 
The company is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. It was founded in 2000 as a joint venture of American telecommunications firm Bell Atlantic, which would soon become Verizon Communications, and British multinational telecommunications company Vodafone. Verizon Communications became the sole owner in 2014 after buying Vodafone's 45-percent stake in the company.
 
It operates a national network covering about 99 percent of the U.S. population.In 2020, 230
million people were able to access Verizon's 5G, or fifth-generation, dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) technology network; by 2022, 175 million people were covered by Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband, which uses mmWave technology.
 
Verizon Wireless offers mobile phone services through a variety of devices. Its LTE in Rural America Program, with 21 rural wireless carriers participating, covers 2.7 million potential users in 169 rural counties. 
 
 
Network
 
Verizon Wireless operates 5G and 4G LTE networks. , Verizon claimed that 99% of the population of the United States can access their 4G network. However, OpenSignal's crowdsourced data showed 4G coverage of 95.9%.
 
Before Verizon's LTE network was launched, the company operated an exclusively CDMA2000 network (the other major CDMA2000 carrier in the US being Sprint). Verizon began its initial tests for the 4G LTE network in 2008 in order to move from older-generation mobile communications technologies to the emerging global standard. In December 2010, Verizon Wireless launched a fledgling 4G LTE network in 39 markets. By December 2011, only a year after launch, 200 million Americans were covered with 4G LTE, in 190 markets. , 98% of the U.S. was covered with LTE, and 92% of all data traffic was on LTE.
 
In 2012, the service provider bought spectrum from the country's biggest cable companies, including Comcast, and Spectrum Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks at the time) to improve its data network across the U.S. The new capacity allowed Verizon to launch what it calls XLTE (LTE on Band 4) in 2013, providing more capacity in congested and well-populated markets.
 
Because 4G LTE is a data-transmitting network, when it launched, Verizon customers' voice calls were still carried over the company's CDMA2000 network, which was developed for 3G cellphones. In September 2014, Verizon launched voice over LTE (VoLTE); this allowed voice calls to transmit via the data-only LTE network. This also allows for simultaneous voice and data services, something that is unavailable on traditional CDMA2000 calls. Along with VoLTE, Verizon also announced support for HD Voice, which provides higher-quality audio for VoLTE calls, and native Video Calling for Android phones. In March 2016, Verizon enabled support for Wi-Fi Calling, which allows calls to be placed over a Wi-Fi network. , nearly 4 million of Verizon's 103.7 million subscribers used VoLTE. In 2019, Verizon announced that they plan to shut down their CDMA2000 network by the end of 2020, making VoLTE the only way to make calls on their network.
 
A report by RootMetrics on carrier performance in the second half of 2020 ranked Verizon's network as the best in overall national performance, network reliability, network speed, data performance and call performance. Verizon Wireless and AT&T tied for first in text performance.
 
In September 2015, Verizon's chief information and technology architect Roger Gurnani stated that Verizon was planning to trial a 5G wireless network within 12 months, with "some level of commercial deployment" by 2017. In late August 2016, Verizon officially announced that it had rolled out LTE Advanced services in 461 markets. The company promoted that the technology would allow at least 50% higher LTE data speeds on supported devices.
 
By the end of 2019, Verizon had launched 5G service in 30 cities across the U.S. Verizon's 5G network is deployed on millimeter wave spectrum (mmWave). While fast, the high-band spectrum Verizon uses has limited range and high penetration loss.
 
In October 2020, during a virtual event unveiling the iPhone 12, Verizon announced that it had begun to widely deploy 5G service on sub-6 GHz spectrum, branded as "Nationwide 5G". This service has a wider range than its mmWave 5G services, and is available to most existing Verizon subscribers with a supported device (unlike mmWave service, which requires one of the service's newer unlimited plans), but uses "dynamic spectrum sharing" with LTE service, and does not have the same level of speed as mmWave. As of December 2020, more than 200 million people were able to access Verizon’s 5G network through Verizon’s DSS-enabled service, which uses lower spectrum bands that are shared between 5G and 4G LTE. Verizon reached 200 million people covered for its Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband, which uses mmWave and mid-band spectrum. Verizon said it would activate 100 MHz of C-Band spectrum, increasing from 60 MHz of spectrum. 
 
Verizon intended to retire its 2G and 3G CDMA network in favor of LTE and 5G on January 1, 2021, but made a last-minute decision to "indefinitely" halt the retirement. They later confirmed that the CDMA network will be retired on December 31, 2022. Verizon customers using a CDMA-only device, or an LTE device that does not support Voice over LTE, were required to upgrade to a newer device in order to continue using the network. The shutdown was completed at the end of 2022 as planned.
 
 
As I work for Verizon and have a conflict of interest, I ask others to look at my draft and make edits on my behalf. Thank you, VZEric (talk) 23:09, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  5G updates 

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thread_title: Reply 13-JUL-2023