The LTE coverage of the United State is growing across the country and carriers. With today's announcement of the new BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 with LTE, let's look a the new LTE markets for each carrier Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile AT&T and Cricket. LTE is important for data use because its data speeds are very fast. [rss cut]
AT&T announced today the expansion of 4G LTE coverage in 6 new metros.
4G LTE is now available in Reading, Pennsylvania, Salt Lake City area and Albuquerque New Mexico. In Puerto Rico, 4G LTE deployment will be in Guayama, San German-Cabo Rojo, and Yauco.
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print has launched its 4G LTE network in 15 cities so that owners of the HTC EVO 4G LTE, Samsung Galaxy S III and LG Viper 4G LTE will be able to use the faster network. Metro areas covered include Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio (a full list of cities follow).
Just in time for the launch of the new network, Sprint is offering the HTC EVO 4G LTE in white. Sprint has also highly discounted the smartphones that can use the new networks, we have found the best deals for it newest release the Samsung Galaxy S III.
Currently LetsTalk is waiving the activation free for Sprint and selling the HTC EVO 4G LTE for $99, the Galaxy Nexus for $19.99 and the Samsung Galaxy S III (16GB) for $149.99 and the LG Viper for free with a contract for individual accounts. Then use LetsTalk coupon code TALK4TEN for 10% off for up to $25 until 8/15.
Sprint announced that it will finally launch its 4G LTE network on July 15.
The 4G LTE network live metros will be Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio. Sprint has delayed the release of the 4G LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy S III, again, however buyers may receive their orders in time in these markets. Other 4G LTE smartphones are the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and HTC EVO 4G LTE.
PCMag.com has posted the results of its annual Fastest Mobile Networks. The winner to be found the fastest data network nationwide is Verizon Wireless 4G LTE. AT&T and T-Mobile came in top in some areas. After publishing the results AT&T refuted the results.
Comment from WiMo News: Although Verizon Wireless is the fastest, it may become the most expensive for individual users when shared data plans start on June 28 which may or may be in time for the Droid Incredible 4G LTE (read how to keep your unlimited data plan). The next most expensive per gigabyte data service is AT&T which came in first place, second, except it doesn't have as much area coverage. The least expensive per gigabyte, Sprint with its unlimited data is not as fast. Maybe 4G LTE is like sports cars the more expensive, the faster you go?