Earlier this morning, Sprint released a slew of press releases announcing the introduction and expansion of 4G LTE in Massachusetts, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico. Here’s the full list of all the new cities and regions that can now experience Sprint’s LTE in all its glory:
- Austin, TX
- Boston, MA
- Bryan-College Station, TX
- Columbia, TN
- Emporia, KS
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Framingham, MA
- Gettysburg, PA
- Western Puerto Rico, including Aguadilla, Isabela, Cabo Rojo, Mayagüez
Additionally, Sprint says that better 3G coverage and data speeds are also available in these areas, which is most definitely welcome news to anyone who has experienced Sprint’s lackluster service as of late.
Even with this latest announcement, concerns are still rising among Sprint subscribers that Sprint’s Network Vision initiative is falling too far behind schedule. Many parts of the nation that were promised WiMAX and never received it are now waiting for LTE coverage, and reports abound of people who experience speeds slower than dial-up internet in 3G coverage areas. Sprint hasn’t officially announced any changes to its original timeline of being largely complete with its LTE rollout by the end of 2013, but unless Sprint can figure out a way to catch up, more delays seem inevitable.
Columbia Tennessee is rolled out before Nashville…
This is why we can’t have nice things…
How about Honolulu?
We have over a million people in our market…
I’m one of those subscribers that have been promised WiMax, but never received it. And waiting for LTE. ugh. Los Angeles/Orange County soon please?
Puerto Rico? Really? But not one place in Oklahoma has it! That’s some bull!
I can’t believe that Sprint didn’t roll out the LTE in Richmond, VA yet. We were one of the first that had WiMax so what’s the damn hold up on this mess. By the time it does come will be time for a new phone … or new carrier & phone. Just saying!!!
Yeah. My market was one of the first to receive Wi-Max as well and there’s not even been a hint of LTE around here yet.
My upgrade is quickly approaching (it’s in May) and I may have to sit on it a bit and see about LTE deployment here and also see what new phone I want (SGS4 perhaps, unless the next EVO blows me away, but I’m kinda annoyed at HTC lately). Wi-Max remains really strong and fast here, so losing that 4G signal with no LTE to replace it, would stink.
I found an internal sprint document that state’s how they pick the markets to be deployed. When you here it your gonna smack yourself in the forehead and say wow that sounds about right. Are you ready for it, here it comes. First they get a chimp from the zoo, get him drunk, then spin him in an office chair while he is blind folded. After repeating this 10 times they give him a couple of darts and point him at a map and give him a good pinch in the ass so he throws the darts.
Robert542 that was excellent, made me laugh.
lol that sounds just right. That’s the reason why I left sprint in December. It definitely sounds like the way they run the company. Thanks for the laugh…
No Denver still!?
*checks phone* Nope, sorry, still no 4G icon at this Boston based tower. Why must Sprint live in a HOUSE OF LIES? I’ve seen my 4G light up here and there for a few seconds while driving through some areas, but the majority of towers are still 3G.
Got a peek at a Verizon phone side-by-side with my EVO LTE today and saw the 4G on their phone, but not mine. So lame.
Noticing that a lot of areas in north Tampa and in Gainesville have it on. Not listed as deployed yet, but I can find about 6 towers in north Tampa almost lutz and everywhere in Gainesville that I go has had it active for 2 weeks now.
I’ve got an itching that the sprint plan is everywhere that Verizon is not already. This provides a new market and when the time is right….Verizon and sprint will start allowing roaming on their LTE networks for the opposite carrier. Hmmmm wonder what the coverage map looks like when you put the two together?
Interesting theory. If by chance your hunch is correct, Sprint better start pushing for roaming to happen NOW because if this continues too much longer they will lose so many customers (me included) that it won’t matter.
My area in MA was supposedly launched months ago. It does work on RT 9 in MA in two different areas, but other than that, 3G. And 3G barely works. I WANT Sprint to succeed.
My last upgrade was last June to the EVO 4G LTE. This means I am eligible around November/December of this year for an upgrade. At that time, I am going to look and see how well the network does. I am going to do one of a few things: stick with Sprint or explore moving to T-Mobile or back to Verizon. Then it will depend on the device. I might go with a Nexus if I move to T-Mobile. If I stay with Verizon or Sprint I will probably move to a SGS4 or Galaxy Note.
Where the heck is OHIO. One of the first states to get wi-max but no LTE announced yet. I know it may not roll out tmr but knowing its coming would be nice
@andrew….i was thinking the same thing… Not a drop in Ohio…
Here in Tampa some area’s have 4g but not everywhere. It just means its close.
Still no LTE in so cal….horrible ..at least fix your slow 3g speeds down here in san Diego
Fix it everywhere. Their 3G seriously blows.
It flickered on for a few seconds in Grand Rapids, Michigan today…
http://db.tt/UlrmFOeO
They’re clearly not to concerned about big markets. For the love of midgets… Muncie, IN has LTE. Two farmers in a town of 30 people have faster speeds then everyone in my 40 floor office bldg.
My city Holyoke, Massachusetts has two areas that have 4G LTE does that mean that they will build upon those LTE sites and spread them out to cover a bigger area?
For the record, I noticed some pretty amazing 3G speeds (for Sprint) last night on my EVO 3D (confirmed on my wife’s OG EVO). I was getting around 2 Mbps to 2.5Mbps down.
For the three years that I’ve been with Sprint I have never seen 3G speeds that fast (usually 1.5 Mbps at best, with 1 Mbps being the average). My tower must have had the Network Vision enhancement.
My opinion is that Sprint is rolling out LTE to these “smaller” markets, and avoiding the massive cost of implementation in some of the bigger metro areas. It allows them to put LTE on their service map, but in reality the roll out is pathetic!!!
Kelly I think you’ve nailed it on the head Sprint does rollout to the smaller markets because it’s more cost-effective & makes them look like they’re covering a greater area.
If you mean having LTE at .10 Mbps in Austin, Tx then I guess this is accurate.
YES! Hawaii not on the list again…Just loving .5 MB Downloads
It’s funny, how I live in Woodbridge Va, and my service is hit or miss, our foot print is bigger than Manassas VA which is 7-8 miles away and my wife last night said when did Manassas get 4g? I said they don’t but there is a pocket of a mile or so wide and mile and a half or so long, yes I drove around to see how far the reach was. It was nice that is what Sprint should be fast, fast, fast. Just my two cent sorry.
Everyone on here would be bitching if Sprint had 4g up and running and wasn’t making it available to their customers. Now its why does this town get it and not mine. All I see is sprint sucks, I’m leaving Sprint, leave then. Every other carrier has some type of 4g up and running, go try them out. The poor poor me shit is getting old.
I live in Houston and couldn’t be happier with Sprint ,I have 4g at home and at work. It sucks not having 4g I understand where yall are coming from but the constant crying I see in this website is getting old.
Of course your ass couldn’t be happier numb nuts, you HAVE 4g at home and work. Of course it’s easy for you to say stop whining, etc. The comments section are for people to voice their opinions, emotions, concerns, whines, whatever. If what they are stating in their comments upsets you, scroll up/down and move on.
And just to add to what Alex said… not only do most of us not have 4G, their 3G is deteriorating. I could patiently wait for 4G if their 3G was working well. But it’s not, so yes, Sprint sucks right now.