AT&T, Verizon push LTE plans, advantages

AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless don't agree on many things in the wireless market, but executives from both carriers were able to concur on one thing at least: LTE is superior to mobile WiMAX.

Kris Rinne, AT&T's senior vice president of architecture and planning, and Tom Sawanobori, Verizon's vice president for network strategy, each touted their companies' respective LTE plans and commitments during a webcast Thursday sponsored by the GSMA trade group. The two execs also lauded their LTE advantages over Clearwire's mobile WiMAX network.