Verizon refuses to disclose why LTE network is interrupted

C114 Beijing Time May 13 afternoon News (Zhang Yuehong) April 28, Verizon Wireless 4GLTE wireless network suffered a continuous 24-hour large interruption, this is Verizon Wireless since the launch of LTE business last December, the first failure.　　While Verizon quickly fixes a broken network, it is an embarrassing episode for Verizon, which has often differentiated itself from its rivals with its network quality.　　Verizon has drawn lessons from the Verizon Wireless LTE ecosystem development executive Director, Blaine Higgins Brian Higgins, at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum, saying the company has learned from the network outage and pledged that such events will never happen again. "We will make some adjustments and have completed some of the adjustments, and network outages are a very important issue and we work with the equipment vendors to solve the problem and our suppliers are responding very well," said Higgins.　　He declined to disclose the specific reasons for the disruption.　　Verizon LTE's wireless-side device provider is Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent, the core network for Nokia Siemens, Cisco's network of Verizon's LTE Packet Data Gateway (PDN). In the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum, Arun Bhikshesvaran, vice president of strategy and market development at Ericsson North America, also declined to explain the details of the network interruption, saying only that the network interruption was not directly related to Ericsson, and that he maintained close contact with Verizon Wireless during the network outage,　　Verizon Wireless has brought together all the vendors to work together on network outages. Tolaga Research analyst Phil Marshall told the media during the network outage that he thought the network outage might have been due to software failure. He said: "It sounds like a deeper reason, more in the core network, when such a disaster occurs, the big possibility is that on software issues, some people may have made some changes to the network, or changed some settings." "The rapid development of the LTE user's LTE network has sparked a strong demand for equipment," said Higgins, who purchased or upgraded smartphones over 60%,verizon in the first quarter, selling 500,000 LTE smartphones and data cards in the first quarter.　　Verizon plans to launch several LTE handsets, including Samsung charge, Motorola Bionic and Lgrevolution.　　Verizon plans to cover 175 Metro cities nationwide, 185 million existing sites (points-of-presence) by the end of the year, and is expected to complete nationwide coverage by 2013. "We expect that by 2020 the US mobile communications infiltrationThe penetration rate will reach 500%, each with 5 terminals. ”