A high-speed smartphone data service freshly rolled out by Verizon crashed anew on December 21 as the US telecom titan continued to work out issues with its new-generation network.
Verizon Wireless 4G LTE data service disruption spread across the United States and lasted several hours but subscribers remained able to make voice calls and exchange text messages using smartphones on the network.
Verizon's previous generation 3G data network continued to operate normally, according to the New York-based company. The nation-wide disruption was the second this month and prompted analysts to suspect that Verizon is grappling with unexpected engineering kinks in the trail-blazing 4G network it began rolling out a year ago.