Verizon’s Joe Russo talks about capacity planning for fixed wireless access (FWA)

Verizon President of Global Networks and Technology Joe Russo said that Verizon does manage its network capacity on a sector-by-sector basis, which has become especially important with the rollout of its fixed wireless access (FWA) service. T-Mobile has been very transparent about managing its network capacity on a sector-by-sector basis in areas where it introduces FWA, to make sure that FWA doesn’t in any way degrade the experience of T-Mobile’s regular mobile customers. But Verizon has only said that it’s always managing the capacity needs on its mobile network, without getting into specifics. Asked about its FWA plans in general, Russo reiterated that Verizon is targeting around 350,000-400,000 net adds per quarter.