Last week, Verizon turned on the 4G for a day in my area last week as a surprise to me when I noticed I had 4G service with out any notice or information that the area would be getting the service (Houma, Louisiana). I know it is not a simple process to turn on and turn off, hence the problems after the 4G went out I rolled all the way back to 1x service until it stablilzed Friday after noon with 3G restored. My only concern was that with the 4G on the data transfer speed was terrible. It looked as though Verizon was a little bit lacking on the Data Backhauls where the speed was not as fast as what I can normally do in New Orleans where I cruise at nearly 10-20 Mbps.
Another concern of my was that hopefully this was a test and that 4G is coming soon in the next 30-60 days. If that is not the case then does Verizon follow Presidential Candidates as Newt Gingrich was in town and maybe he or they were providing 4G service for the media embeds.
