In the meantime, Chao and his team are also under pressure to deploy VoLTE, which will allow MetroPCS to refarm its spectrum currently reserved for CDMA services. The company announced in October that it had completed its first VoLTE call using end-to-end commercial equipment, and it plans to launch VoLTE this year. This may prove challenging, considering fellow VoLTE advocate Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) reportedly might not deploy VoLTE nationwide until 2013, as opposed to its previous goal of late 2012.
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