LTE deployment will be gradual, protracted

What is LTE?
Long Term Evolution is a project to improve the UMTS mobile phone standard to cope with future technology evolutions. Goals include improving spectral efficiency, lowering costs, improving services, making use of new spectrum and refarmed spectrum opportunities, and better integration with other open standards. It is sometimes called "4G."

What is 4G?
4th generation technology that will provide voice, data and streamed multimedia to users on an “anytime, anywhere” basis, and at higher data rates than current generations allow. Objectives for 4G include wired and wireless technologies capable of providing 100Mbps and 1Gbps speeds both indoors and outdoors. 4G will succeed current 3G WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA technology.