Precisely because — as you said — they can just skip 3.9G and go straight to deploying LTE-Advanced in its backbone. They have a marketing advantage for doing so and as LTE-A will be backwards compatible to existing LTE devices, there is hardly any reason to not.
Just make sure you don’t put anything “obscene” on skydrive. You’d think a company who calls out on Google for matching ads based on email content would do better but no, they aren’t even aware of how hypocritical they are being here.