Sprint officially launched its 4G LTE network yesterday, on July 15, in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio. But now, less than 24 hours after launch, Sprint has tripled the number of cities in which LTE is officially available. The list now includes Athens, Calhoun, Carrollton, Newnan, and Rome, all in Georgia; Fort Worth, Granbury-Hood County, Huntsville, and Waco, all in Texas; and St. Joseph, Missouri.
This means that 4G LTE is now available in four different states, with more to come soon.
Sprint has also updated its 4G LTE landing site (available at sprint.com/lte), hinting that Baltimore will be the next major market to get LTE coverage.
Sprint is still claiming that it is on target to have its rollout largely completed by the end of 2013, with more than 250 million people covered with LTE. Time will tell whether or not Sprint will be able to reach this goal, but I have confidence that Sprint will achieve this.
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How is there no LTE in NYC yet? You would figure that NYC would be one of the first…..com’on Sprint, what the hell?
Their headquarters are in Kansas City, so they like to bring upgrades around the south first. NYC comes in the second wave, which is nice for us because a lot of the bugs with the service will have already been fixed.
Yeah! So quit your whiny bitchin son!
Ahh yes, 4G LTE with speeds slower than 3G. I was excited to see the 4G light up on my phone this morning here in SA (I was at home on wifi yesterday), only to see that my 4G speed was slow as molasses. Maybe it was just the area I was in, but was disappointed and even switch off LTE, so I could listen to Pandora while working out. I tried to do a speed test, but had such difficulty getting it to ping a server, I gave up. We’ll see if it improves over time.
i had the same issue with mark above, but i turned lte off and on again, but then it just switched over to 3g..so i think when the speeds get slower it must be transitioning back to 3g.
its will be a long time till my state see’s LTE sucks being the smallest state!!!!
lil Rhode Island
Everyone know RI blows!
I’m in Dallas very near North Side of DFW airport and haven’t seen any 4G reception yet.
No 4G on my EVO LTE in Atlanta. Downtown or in the burbs.
Yeah Jon, no 4G in S. Fulton (near Hartsfield-Jackson). Also no 4G from Southside drive from College Park to Cumberland Mall area. 4G did flicker (Cumberland), but it wasn’t impressive when it stayed on long enough for me to do a speed test.
I’m in Dallas. I work in Dallas and live in North Dallas in Mckinney. No LTE. They said they went live, but reports are that it’s not working anywhere. I got a new EVO LTE last night but tonight I’ll be returning it. When they got their network up I’ll consider a repurchase. In the meantime back to my old EVO
Good idea. If it isn’t working for you, that seems to be the wise thing to do.
Somehow, my Galaxy Nexus is getting pretty good LTE speeds on Sprint in the cities of Dallas, Lewisville, Carrollton and the DFW airport (nothing in some other cities – yet)
There is no less than THREE Verizon ads on my screen right now. One for the GSIII, one for the Nexus, and another one for the Nexus. I wonder how good their 4GLTE is?
Verizon’s LTE is awesome. Blazing fast and consistent. I jumped ship back in February from Sprint. But I keep coming back to Good and Evo as it is a great site. Hopefully when my contract is up in 1.5 years Sprint will have awesome LTE coverage and still have unlimited data. If so I’ll be jumping back to Sprint.
Just landed on the moon and I am getting an LTE signal.
WE TOLD ALL OF U NOT TO TRUST SPRINT AT ALL, SO DO U FILL DUMB OR JUST STUPID NOW,U SOLD YOUR EVO FOR A SHINNY NEW LIE. SPRINT U GET TO THUMBS DOWN ON THE LTE SERVICE , ON SELLING THE LTE TWO THUMBS UP WAY TO TELL THAT BIG JUCEY LIE SPRINT EXCELLENT JOB 1 ONE OF THE BIGGEST LIES EVER ,RIGHT UP THEIR WITH THE TOOTH FAIRY AND ALL THAT JAZ ….I’M STILL ROCK N MY OG EVO 4G
No lte in Chicago
Nothing in st.Louis yet but old 4g so ill stick with my og EVO for now
I think some people should give this a read: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-311-editorial-cmon-people-you-really-do-want-access-to-the-lte-network-early-right/
No LTE in ATLANTA. PERIOD!
Yeah, I read Roberts rant. A lie is a lie, false advertising is false advertising. End of discussion. I would enjoy just seeing the image of 4GLTE light up on my phone at this point. Within a month Sprints customer service has become horrible. They hang up on you, put you on hold and never make the notations you request. I’ve lost complete signal for three days where I live, lies lies lies! And Robert should keep working for Sprint.
I went thru Waco today, so tried to get LTE and also did speed test.
This speed test was done while in Waco (LTE active, but Evo 4G LTE did NOT switch to LTE)
McDonald’s – note that 4g did not show up
Test Date: Jul 21, 2012 12:18:33 pm
Connection Type: EvdoA
Server: Temple, TX
Download: 1478 kbps
Upload: 457 kbps
Ping: 185 ms
IP addresses removed
Latitude: 31.54962
Longitude: -97.12459
A detailed image for this result can be found here:
http://www.speedtest.net/android/215827055.png