Verizon Wireless is looking towards the future and the futures seems to have LTE and CDMA all over it. According to Verizon’s CTO Tony Melone the company is working hard on its 700MHz LTE. Phase four trials are scheduled in selected markets for the end of 2009. By 2010 the 4G network will be available for all of us and it will grow rapidly in the following years. Verizon’s CDMA network will stay in place at least until 2018 or 2020. The EV-DO network however will be replaced a lot faster by the new LTE network.

If all that wasn’t good news then here’s something else for you: Verizon will lower data services in the near future. Melone said that “pricing is inhibiting the growth of this market. Quite frankly, this is likely to change even before LTE.” We have no specifics yet but we’ll be back with all the numbers once Verizon will announce them.

via DSL Reports