Verizon Wireless claims that it will get 4G wireless broadband to everywhere in the US.

Tony Melone, senior vice president and chief technology officer for Verizon Wireless, said during an interview at the CTIA Wireless 2009 tradeshow that the new 4G network that the company is building will blanket the entire continental United States, including the far corners of rural America.

He said that Verizon has licenses to cover the whole  of the former English colony and planned to roll out LTE throughout the entire country. This includes places that it can't offer its normal CDMA mobile phone service.

Verizon has so far avoided connecting rural areas because it has been too expensive to build the infrastructure. The federal government has provided some $1.2 billion in loans aimed at helping operators in the private sector build broadband networks in remote areas, the money hasn't been stretched to reach every community.

Only about 38 per cent of rural American households have access to high-speed Internet connections compared to 57 per cent of those in the city and  60 per cent of people living in suburbs.

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