Making his first appearance at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, the CTO of Verizon Communications, Dick Lynch, announced the company’s LTE deployment plans and which network equipment vendors have been selected – something the mobile industry has been eagerly awaiting. Having conducted – in conjunction with Vodafone – three trials of LTE over a 12 month period, Verizon Wireless has chosen Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as winners of its all important RAN contract