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If youve been using Verizons LTE service in major urban areas for a few years, youre probably well aware that speeds arent what they used to be. The drop in speeds has provided fuel for competitors ATT and T-Mobile, but Verizon is about to roll out its answer to those problems next week, according to rumors. Droid-Life reports that the carrier plans to release a rebranded XLTE service in large cities around the country with double the speeds of its current LTE network on May 19th. Regardless of the branding, XLTE (if thats what itll be called) is the same mobile network technology as the LTE youre using today. To address its bandwidth crunch, Verizon has spent billions on a huge store of AWS spectrum over the years to supplement its current LTE network, which runs on the companys 700MHz spectrum.