While 5G tends to dominate the headlines these days, there’s still a lot of gas left in the LTE tank, and Verizon is demonstrating just that with the deployment of LTE Advanced technologies.  

The operator announced that customers in more than 2,000 markets can access the benefits of carrier aggregation (CA) and those in 1,100 markets can access 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM in addition to CA. Combined, the three technologies can significantly boost the available capacity and speed.  

“Our customers experience the largest LTE coverage in the country, unrivaled service reliability and the most consistently fast speeds in the industry,” said Nicola Palmer, chief network engineering officer and head of Wireless Networks, in a prepared statement. “We’ve done this through customer-focused planning, disciplined engineering, and consistent, strategic investment, continuing to deploy LTE Advanced technologies.”