Verizon to light up 400th LTE market on October 18th

In addition to declaring that the company intends to maintain its lead over AT&T and Sprint, Nicola Palmer, CTO for Verizon, outlined that the carrier currently has about 11 million post-paid subscribers on the LTE network which, in turn, covers approximately 75% of the US population. Since LTE was launched, Verizon has introduced 37 LTE devices, and that the data used from those accounts for approximately 35% of Verizon’s total data load. Those figures are very revealing, as the carrier has over 100 million subscribers, yet only 11 million LTE customers are gobbling down 35% of the carrier's total data.
Finally, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is in the works, but again, Palmer does not expect anything commercially available from the carrier until the end of 2013 at the earliest. Good things come to those who wait though, as he characterized the implementation as having full HD quality.