What are the challenges of providing voice over LTE?
Rubino: To deploy LTE voice, the issue is taking voice and data and running it together on an all-IP network. Different solutions were posed last year on how to standardize on voice over LTE. Verizon's LTE rollout will be data only at first because you would need an LTE phone for voice. If you used an LTE dongle on a PC, you could use Skype, but that's not an LTE voice solution.
Kate Gerwig is executive editor of SearchTelecom.com
Bill Rubino is a principal analyst at ACG Research specializing in service provider mobile network infrastructure.
This article originally appeared in SearchTelecom.com