Verizon Wireless upgrades their EV-DO network

The market might be full of news on the just launched Apple iPhone device which is being exclusively served by AT&T mobile services, but there is another interesting news related to mobile technologies.

Verizon Wireless has announced that their entire EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) network has been upgraded. The network would provide higher speeds and lower latency.

The company confirmed that the network has now been upgraded to EV-DO Revision A and it now supports 600K bps to 1.4M bps downstream and between 500K bps and 800K bps upstream.

These speeds are good enough to let a user download a 1MB e-mail attachment in about eight seconds or upload it in less than 13 seconds. This network is now accessible to 210 million U.S. Residents.

Verizon spokesperson Jeffrey Nelson spoke on this new development: “Fundamentally, wireless service, voice service, any kind of service you want to offer, is only as good as the network that it’s on.”