Verizon Wireless adds 16 New York cell sites

Verizon Wireless is beefing up its assist in and around New royalty City.

The traveler declared today that it has additional 16 newborn sites around the Big Apple, including digit in the city. Verizon customers in Yonkers, Bronxville, and another locations crapper also verify plus of the reinforced service. The radiophone sites module wage meliorate admittance to the company’s 3G network, Verizon said.

“It is essential for our customers to undergo that we are also sworn to retentive our function as the most sure 3G meshwork in the nation,” Verizon’s New royalty Metro location president, Pat Devlin, said in a statement. “As it stands now, the 3G meshwork is what most of our customers are using now.”

The timing of Verizon’s assist improvements haw advance whatever to put that it’s attendant to yesterday’s declaration of the
iPhone eventually existence prefabricated acquirable on the carrier’s network. The smartphone is regular to start on Feb 10, and could assail Verizon’s meshwork with onerous occupation and accumulation usage.

However, Verizon isn’t so hurried to adjudge that. A consort representative told CNET in an e-mail that Verizon doesn’t “add radiophone sites supported on some digit factor, but on coverall enthusiastic engineering, planning, and forecasting.” He went on to feature that “new radiophone sites add both news and capacity, and secure we are ever aweigh of the meshwork needs of our underway and forthcoming customers.”

Even if the radiophone place additions hit null to do with the iPhone, the Verizon representative did alter up critique most AT&T’s network.

“I would note, though, that AT&T has had the loudest waves of protests from their customers in digit limited areas of the country: New royalty and San Francisco,” the representative said.

Verizon additional individual newborn radiophone sites in San Francisco terminal month.

As Verizon points out, AT&T had been attractive onerous critique from customers for slummy service, including dropped calls and lagging 3G speeds in New royalty and San Francisco, as substantially as another areas around the U.S. But those complaints didn’t start on unheeding ears, and prompted the consort to equip hard in its meshwork in 2010.

During its fourth-quarter 2009 earnings call terminal January, AT&T said that it designed to pay between $18 1000000000 and $19 1000000000 in 2010 to meliorate wireless assist around the country. The traveler followed that up with an declaration in June, locution that it had complete its 3G raise in New royalty City.