"A femtocell of LTE or an access point of Wi-Fi is a really critical component of the way customers want their broadband delivered," Lynch said.

Verizon wants to embrace the broader consumer electronics world through devices sold in retail stores such as Best Buy, Lynch said. "Machine-to-machine" applications such as cameras automatically uploading photos to the Internet over the air may increase the number of devices on wireless data networks "by an order of magnitude" compared with just human subscribers, he said.

"Broadband capabilities will be found in virtually every electronics product out there," Lynch said. Verizon Wireless is trying to move from the model of selling every customer a phone and service to where they can buy them separately, he said.

On Verizon's wireline network, Lynch said the carrier will deploy 100G bps (bit-per-second) links on its backbone by this time next year. It is also caching some content close to subscribers' locations to reduce needless long-haul transport, and it wants to explore using peer-to-peer technology as a tool for delivery of some content, he said.