RIM To Work On LTE BlackBerry?

Word on the street is that RIM has set up a work team that has been tasked with creating an LTE BlackBerry. The reason for RIM starting this early is that they want to have an LTE BlackBerry ready at the same time that LTE begins to be deployed worldwide, which could be as soon as late 2009. A more reasonable date for LTE to be ready would be 2011, which is the date that it’s generally expected to be available in the major carriers of the world. If you’ve been wondering what LTE is, it’s a 4G network technology that will succeed 3G and 3.5G, which will obviously offer faster network speeds.