Everyone is aiming to speed up internet connections even Verizon

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Verizon Wireless stated they are willing to spend an amazing total of $1 billion to set up and put in a place a kind of advanced data network that should hopefully allow customers to browse the world wide web at high speeds on mobile phones or laptop computers.

This is another stage in the unfolding rivalry between the major mobile phone companies that are always striving to gain on their competitors by putting in place faster and faster data services.

Looking to speed up people's internet connection reflects how technology is helping telecommunications firms in their quest to expand far beyond their core businesses. Verizon Wireless plans to deploy a data network that will be ever closer to the speed of Internet access offered through traditional means such as telephone or cable lines.

The announcement actually only came a day after Verizon stated they would try and spend $2 billion by the end of 2005 in order to improve significantly their land-line terrestrial network voice, data and video transmissions could be carried simultaneously.

The words chief executive of Verizon Ivan Seidenberg encapsulate how more and more people are likely to speed up their internet connection with a seismic shift taking place in the change of focus to data services; ‘‘This pushes us away from being voice-centric,’’ as ‘We’re moving away from the legacy business.’’

The latest actions of Verizon have not shocked many analysts who have argued that Verizon’s rivals are also seeking to upgrade their networks. Roger Entner of the Yankee Group which is a respected market research firm, stated that AT&T Wireless boasts the speediest data network which amazingly helps users to download data at about 100 to 130 kilobits per second and this is double the speed of a 56 kbps dial-up connection. Verizon Wireless is seeking to offer consumers speeds of 300 to 500 kilobits per second, and this is more akin to download speeds experience on high-speed telephone digital subscriber lines or perhaps cable modem connections.