AT&T 4G LTE: rolling out a faster network
AT&T is rapidly moving forward with its new LTE network as it attempts to catch up with rival Verizon. The carrier has pegged the end of 2013 as its target date for completing the rollout, and we've got all the updates on the latest markets to go live for you right here.
AT&T LTE now live in over 100 markets ahead of schedule
With a series of launches today and yesterday, AT&T's LTE now covers 150 million people in over 100 markets — something that was originally projected for the end of 2012. LTE was rolled out today in Portland, Pensacola, and several other markets; yesterday, it was turned on in Minneapolis-Saint Paul as well. Seattle, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and others were launched in September, shortly before the iPhone 5's release. Today, AT&T said it was in 103 markets, compared to 53 in August and a...
AT&T LTE goes live in Seattle, Portland, Detroit, and more ahead of iPhone 5 launch (updated)
We knew that AT&T was planning to turn on its LTE service in a number of new regions before the end of the year, and it appears one city has been given the green light: Seattle. A trusted source tells us that the service has in fact gone live in the city, with a reader also reporting that they've recently seen the service sporadically spring to life on their own LTE device. In several tests, the reader saw download speeds range between 17.1Mbps and 22Mbps.
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AT&T expands LTE to Syracuse, Anchorage, and more, announces almost 50 planned launches
AT&T's LTE expansion continues with a fairly major batch of announcements today: the company has turned on 4G LTE in seven new US markets, with more sites planned by the end of 2012. Syracuse, Bakersfield, and Anchorage are among the cities with LTE now available — it's the first time AT&T has expanded into Alaska. Coverage in the New York / New Jersey and Washington, DC areas has also been expanded. Almost four dozen other markets are promised by "the end of the year," including forays...
AT&T expands LTE coverage in Texas and Arkansas
Verizon announced yesterday that it's serving 75 percent of the US population with LTE, but AT&T is diligently expanding as well: the company just announced that it's bringing LTE to Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as Waco, Texas. That brings AT&T's total markets served to 53 compared to Verizon's 370 — and even though Verizon had a headstart in its 4G rollout, it's important for AT&T that the gap doesn't widen. While AT&T's latest expansion into Texas...
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AT&T rolls out LTE in new Florida markets, expands coverage in Boston, DC
AT&T announced new LTE markets in Florida and Massachusetts today, and expanded several of its already operational coverage areas. The carrier's high-speed wireless network is now available in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, Florida, as well as Worcester, Massachusetts.
AT&T also expanded coverage in Boston and Washington, DC, which have both had LTE coverage since last November. Boston's coverage area has been expanded to include MetroWest, North Shore, and South Shore, and...
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AT&T adds LTE coverage to seven additional markets, now 47 in all
AT&T has extended its LTE network to seven additional markets, covering a total of 47 markets and over 74 million people across the United States. Starting this week, Wichita, Kansas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Gainesville, Georgia; Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; Greensboro and Winston Salem, North Carolina; and additional cities in the Cleveland, Ohio area are home to the network's high-speed wireless network. The carrier's goal is to complete its LTE rollout by the end of 2013, but it...
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AT&T's LTE network now up and running in Cleveland, OH
AT&T today announced that its 4G LTE network is now live in Cleveland, Ohio, making good on a rollout schedule it laid out back in March. The added market further extends AT&T's LTE coverage map in the Buckeye State after it flipped the switch for residents of Akron and Canton last month. No, the carrier hasn't quite kept pace with Verizon's rapid 4G deployments, but that hasn't left us any less impressed by data speeds we've experienced on AT&T's LTE airwaves. Of course, we're still in the...
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AT&T LTE rollout continues: Cleveland, St. Louis, New Orleans, and nine others this summer
AT&T's LTE rollout is pushing on, and we've heard this morning that another 12 markets will be covered by "early summer." While more of the large cities you'd expect are included on that list, the new network's also filtering down to some smaller markets too, ready for the wave of new devices we saw at MWC (as well as the new iPad launched at last week's event).
AT&T to complete LTE network by end of 2013
As an aside in its announcement of 11 new LTE markets, AT&T mentioned something else interesting: it now expects to have its LTE rollout "largely complete by the end of 2013," a sentiment echoed by company exec John Stankey at a conference today. That's the most specific guidance AT&T has given for when it'll be done with its LTE deployment, which also happens to be the same year that it plans on kicking off an even faster LTE-Advanced network in some markets.
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AT&T's LTE network goes live in 11 new markets, including NYC and Los Angeles
AT&T has had its fair share of setbacks lately, but the mobile carrier is pushing forward, announcing today that its new LTE network has gone live in 11 additional markets. Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco are among the new areas. The carrier also lists New York City as one of its new additions, though the network there had already gone live last month when we reviewed the LG Nitro HD.
The new regions join cities like Chicago, Las Vegas, and Boston, bringing the total number of AT&T...
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AT&T's LTE network appears to be working in San Francisco
They're not quite getting the incredible speeds we're seeing in New York City on our LG Nitro HD (see picture above) but Engadget is reporting that the carrier's LTE network is live in downtown San Francisco right now. We're not sure whether it's a soft launch or just a preliminary test — we reached out to AT&T minutes ago — but you can help us figure out how widespread the network is by contributing your own reports. Feel free to post your speeds in this forum post, or in the comments...
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AT&T to light up six new markets with LTE on November 20th
AT&T's just on a roll today. An LTE roll that is. In addition to the new Galaxy Tab 8.9, the carrier has announced that it will be rolling out LTE coverage in six more markets — Charlotte, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, and San Juan, Puerto Rico — on November 20th. Unfortunately, New York, San Francisco, and some other big ones are still off the list, but at least AT&T's delivering on its 2011 promise of lighting up a total of 15 markets by year's end. Check the...
AT&T LTE coming to Boston, Washington D.C. next
It looks like Boston and Washington D.C. are next in line to receive LTE coverage from AT&T — the company made the announcement during its Q3 2011 earnings call. There was no mention of when, but it should happen soon because AT&T promised LTE for 15 markets and 70 million people by the end of 2011. It's already a third of the way toward that goal, having turned on LTE in San Antonio, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston on September 18th. Right now, that LTE is only available on the HTC J...
AT&T 4G LTE launching in first five markets on Sunday
Though it's been soft-launched for a couple weeks now, AT&T has said at a financial conference today that it'll be officially offering LTE service in its first five launch markets (San Antonio, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston) starting this coming Sunday, September 18th. There aren't any LTE-compatible handsets in AT&T's lineup just yet, but customers can walk into stores right now and pick up an HTC tablet, a couple USB dongles, and a mobile hotspot -- the Elevate 4G -- that'll work...
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AT&T's 4G LTE network appears in Chicago (video)
Hang tight, Verizon: Chicago is one of five launch markets for AT&T's new LTE network, with a total of fifteen or so expected by the end of 2011. The carrier has been selling its new Momentum 4G and Elevate 4G data devices for a little over a week now, promising HSPA+ speeds initially with LTE compatibility once the network lights up -- and for those of us in Chicago, pockets of AT&T LTE are just now starting to appear.
I grabbed an Elevate 4G this evening to try it out; the representative...
