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Verizon is battling with Japan's NTT DoCoMo for the prize of first carrier to deploy LTE, regardless of all the lessons DoCoMo learned (or didn't) from pushing out 3G at an early, even pre-certified, stage. European LTE supporters have remained more cautious, though China Mobile is fast tracking its own LTE trials in TDD mode. But as European 3G showed, scoring huge publicity points by being first with a new technology usually backfires, and so Verizon Wireless is wisely clarifying its schedules, pushing back the date for commercial roll-out, which will now reach its phase one target of 20-30 markets in the second half of 2010, at least six months later than planned.

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