Sprint announced availability of 4G LTE in more areas today, including Lawrence, Kansas; Topeka, Kansas; Wichita, Kansas; Waukegan-Lake County, Illinois; and Barnstable-Hyannis/Mid-Cape, Massachusetts. This is in addition to the 19 other cities in which LTE is already officially available: Atlanta; Athens, Georgia; Baltimore; Calhoun, Georgia; Carrollton, Georgia; Newnan, Georgia; Rome, Georgia; Dallas; Fort Worth, Texas; Gainesville, Georgia; Granbury-Hood County, Texas; Houston; Huntsville, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas City, Kansas; Manhattan/Junction City, Kansas; San Antonio, Texas; Sedalia, Missouri; Waco, Texas; and St. Joseph, Missouri.
So it seems as if Sprint missed its unofficial target launch date of September 21 for Chicago and Boston, although I have seen reports of intermittent coverage in those areas. And Sprint is still officially on track to launch LTE in about 100 other areas in the coming months.
If you’ve been lucky enough to get LTE on your HTC EVO 4G LTE, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S III, or other LTE-enabled Sprint device, be sure to run a few speed tests, and give us your results below. None of the Pocketables editors have been lucky enough to access LTE for any significant length of time, so we’re curious about its real-world performance, too.
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I got 16 mbps here in Boston on my evo LTE, but it doesn’t seem to stay connected consistantly. Maybe a problem with the radio?
Cleveland, Ohio date ??? Akron, OH ??? How about some love out here Sprint.
LTE is starting to come up in places around suburban Indianapolis. I work on the northeast corner of the city, near Fishers, and am getting around 15 Mbps down and just over 2 Mbps up.
Can you upload it on sensorly?
Just ran a speed test using the sensorly app…is that all i need to do?
Theres an option to map your trip…..just have to choose how often and when to upload….i uploaded a trip when i was in castleton 2 days ago
Already behind schedule; lovely.
can’t wait.
Man it seems like Sprint is moving backwards. They really need to get things going if they ever want to compete with the big two!
Boston: I didn’t get any LTE signal at all over the weekend. Checking the LTE logs this morning, it seems I’ve connected to a couple of LTE towers in my travels today and didn’t notice. I’ll have to pay closer attention to the car dock on the way home, when safe to do so. In the past I had WiMax at my house, hope that’s one of the towers they installed LTE hardware to!
I’m gonna guess it won’t hit SD till I’m up for upgrade. And when that time hits…Upgrade gon’ find me!!
I am in Dallas any rarely see 4G. Sometimes I have to switch the antenna to CDMA only because I loose connection completely when on CDMA/LTE. Not sure if it’s just my phone or network. Good thing is that 3G in the areas I am around aren’t bad at all.
They need to bring it to Los Angeles County already!
I cant wait to try it out with the EVO LTE.
I picked up LTE in Round Lake, IL on Saturday (9/22) for about 10 seconds.
0.25 mbps down in Santa Clara, right by the beating heart of Silicon Valley… just saying.
About a month ago, I picked up LTE at 2 am in Wood Dale, IL. Must have been testing the tower. I clocked 26.74 mbps down, 13.30 up. I’m sure I was one of few on the tower at that point in time. I’m curious to see how this translates over to the live day to day scenario
Hopefully Sprint can increase LTE coverage quick. Or people might start jumping ship to other carriers. I left Sprint for lack of anything decent in my area for T-Mobile, who doesn’t even offer LTE yet, but they still smoke Sprint.
Awesome, I love LTE when i get it, Just hope they keep improving it
Either bring this thing to NYC, or I’m LEAVING Sprint!! New York is the center of the world folks, and Sprint needs to recongnize this!!
Actually to everyone else but us(Americans) London is considered the center of the world. But Sprint needs to capitalize on the huge Market in NYC.
I wonder if they’re doing the reverse of wimax? Maybe all the wimax places will be last? I really want lte.
Still have crap 3g here in north suburban Houston…grrr.
bs!!! does anyone kno when RHODE ISLAND is getting LTE??? i never even see it talked about anywhere???
All the Jayhawks in Lawrence, KS will enjoy this.
They’re never gonna get Hawaii done
I’m just waiting patiently in ohio for them to start upgrading. Why no love for Dayton? You couldn’t give us WiMAX, I think you need to get us on the list for lte sooner.
I happened to be in Chicago proper all weekend and actually got worse service than I usually do there. Couldn’t get incoming calls and it took almost 5 hours for texts to get to me. Good Job Sprint.
com’n down! to phx…
Tampa was suppose to have lte last month and it still isn’t up and running yet. Don’t have a capable phone myself but bought one for the wife. Hope its up by the time the Note 2 comes out.
No LTE yet up here in Boston… My HTC EVO 4g LTE was having problems getting any type of signal all weekend when my reception is usually strong. I was roaming when I should’ve been 4Ging… It’s back to normal now but was a bit frustrated this weekend…
I wish we would get it here in Kentucky already. I am going to Gatlinburg next month wonder if they have it?
Im getting 5.6mb down and 7.3 up but yea its not constant… infact its messing up my wifi too. Kinda weird but my phone keeps loosing data completely.
I love these “Where’s Waldo?” threads. Cmon sprint!
Just started getting LTE in Naperville, Il! 12mb down and up, fairly consistently (using both Xtremelabs and Speedtest.net).
Guess that means Sprint and their ever successful marketing team hosed us all again. Funny, we bought into the BS with WiMAX, and here we are buying into their new LTE phones, “proposed” LTE roll-outs, complete with missed deadlines, $10/month “data” fees and all the fixin’s. You’d figure as one of the first EVO 4G owners in Memphis, we’d have seen something change here – except for receiving my free AirRave! As it is, I still have to force roam to get decent “data” usage in my area. A sucker is born every minute – and I ladies and gentlemen – am a sucker!
I’m in a suburb of Chicago (Niles, IL), and I’m getting 4G LTE consistently. Ran multiple speed tests and they ranged from 15 mbps – 22mbps. I have friends in other areas of Chicago that haven’t seen 4G LTE yet though.
Basically just not coming to Buffalo, NY???
What the hell. I never got Wimax, don’t even have the faster 3G, and now no word of getting 4GLTE.
This debacle will make me jump ship from sprint when I’m do for my next upgrade because this is getting ridiculous.
Getting solid Lte in Willowbrook, IL! Consistently 13-15 mb/s down and around 10-12 up. One speed test had 30mb/s down! Bout time, go Sprint!
it would be nice to see Cincinnati on that list. we were one of the first to get WiMax but now, . . .
still nothing here in honolulu. i wish we could roam on verizon’s lte network…
Making the move to Verizon was the best thing that I could have done. I miss the evo line and so far I’ve had a gnex, razr maxx and now a Gs3 but I miss htc products and I’ll be selling my Gs3 for the htc droid incredible x phablet once it launches. I do love having a removable battery and micro sd expansion but even if the phone only has 16gb of internal storage it will be well worth it for superior build quality and a 1080p display. I’m rocking 4g almost everywhere i go and even though I lost my unlimited with the move from Sprint i got into verizon when they were offering double the data so 4gbs a month is plenty for me.
at this rate i should get 4g close to my area by the time they are rolling out the next gen network and they still will not upgrade my towers… yay $10 a month for service i can never use!
I keep stalking these post just hoping to see Hawaii magically popup way early than expected. I’m due for a new phone but torn on getting it on Sprint which who knows when we will get 4g and/or Tmobile which doesn’t have 4g but has really fast 3g (good speed, lower battery cost) and just brought back unlimited data. Ugh the wait is killing me, but where the Note 2 lands just might have me.
hurry up sprint.