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Bluegrass Cellular Will Sing Along With Verizon's LTE Tune

Nov 8, 2010, 3:52 PM by Philip Berne

Verizon Wireless has signed up central Kentucky's Bluegrass Cellular to deliver LTE service, as part of Verizon's LTE in Rural America program. The program sees Verizon leasing parts of its 700 MHz spectrum to rural carriers in areas where Verizon has not built out its LTE service already. Bluegrass says it expects its LTE performance to hit 5 to 12 Mbps downloads, and 2 to 5 Mbps uploads.

source: Verizon Wireless

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VZW611LA

Nov 8, 2010, 9:10 PM

Why Doesn't

Verizon just go ahead and buy them? Really, they own them a chunk of $ as it is. They don't have the money to expand their 3G network. Verizon would be much better. Their plans are not real good, too.

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