Verizon Communications and a trio of international carrier partners have thrown their considerable might behind the LTE Broadcast standard with the formation of an alliance focused on device support beginning in 2017.
In addition to Verizon, the LTE-Broadcast Alliance is being formed with Australia’s Telstra, South Korea’s KT and United Kingdom-based EE. The carriers claim they represent more than 200 million mobile subscribers, which they plan to use as leverage in getting LTE-B support in “every top- and mid-tier device launched in 2017.”
