Verizon Technology Center in Waltham, Mass., will open in early 2011

Verizon is following the lead of Daft Punk and Kanye West — making their wireless network  harder, better, faster, stronger.

While Verizon’s new 4G LTE network might not seem as cool as Daft Punk and Kanye West’s chart topping songs, imagine being able to download songs, videos, and files faster than ever before on your laptops and smartphones. Yesterday, Verizon announced their completion of 4G technical testing in Boston and Seattle.

Verizon will now begin user trials in Boston, along with Seattle and three other cities that have yet to be disclosed.

For those of us who were lost back when they first read “4G LTE network” in this post, let’s break it down:

In the history of wireless technology there have been 1G, 2G, 2.5, 3G (the iPhone runs on 3G), and now 4G wireless networks, each with their own set of industry standards. The newest of the wireless networks, 4G will have the best multimedia, data rates, speed, and real-time technology yet.

LTE stands for “Long-Term Evolution” and is the technology the 4G network will use to bring unbelievable speed to mobile Internets.

Out of all the mobile phone carriers in the country, Verizon has become the leader in 4G network technology and installation.

“With LTE we’re experiencing a transition from connected people–the internet of connected people, to the internet of connected things,” says Praveen Atreya of Verizon’s LTE Innovation Center in Waltham, Mass. (more…)