How is Verizon's upcoming LTE overlay "moving away from CDMA?"

Apes will rise up and rule the Earth before Verizon shuts down the CDMA
network!  (And the Apes will likely continue to use CDMA)  ;-)

Seriously, CDMA will hang around post-LTE for a good number of years.  Like
GSM, it just plain works, it's already deployed, and little is to be gained
by replacing it anytime soon.  Don't read too much into the LTE thing.  A
transition to some form of "4G" is inevitable, so why not to one that
interoperates with Verizon's European co-owners?  Why intentionally choose
an oddball scheme that locks you out of international roaming revenue?

As an analogy, note that European GSM 3G phones will roam on some decidedly
non-GSM Japanese systems, because they chose the same 3G standard and
frequencies as Europe.  This is no different- Verizon had to overlay SOME
sort of 4G data on their network- why not a Euro-compatible one?

That, of course, is if Sprint doesn't wake up, deploy WiMax and "own" mobile
data before Verizon gets LTE deployed in the next couple of years.