Verizon Wireless is trying to make sure their LTE business hits the ground running and thus is bringing together network equipment vendors, venture capital companies and opening a lab for testing handsets reports pcworld.

Verizon plans on rolling out their LTE in Seattle and Boston later in the year with a commercial launch in 2010. Network vendors have stated that LTE is possible at roughly 100MB a second downstream but this will depend on several factors including carrier bandwidth allocation.

At the Verizon Wireless LTE Innovations Centre in Waltham, Massachusetts, Verizon has opened a lab to test and develop devices and apps on a functional LTE network where engineers from Verizon, Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson will be at hand for assistance.