AT&T closing in on 400 LTE markets
AT&T flipped the LTE switch on 14 new markets today, bringing its LTE service footprint to 397 markets total. Well short of Verizon’s LTE network, but well on track for AT&T’s stated goal to cover 420 markets by the end of 2013.
With the addition of these new cities, AT&T claims that its LTE coverage now reaches over 225 million people. As coverage increases, the number of people covered will have more meaning more than anything.
AT&T subscribers should be seeing LTE coverage now in these new markets. Just like when Verizon was on a mad roll to build its LTE, as AT&T's coverage progresses, the list of towns grows more and more obscure:
Below is a table of how all the major carriers in the US are shaping up with LTE service.
source: Light Reading
With the addition of these new cities, AT&T claims that its LTE coverage now reaches over 225 million people. As coverage increases, the number of people covered will have more meaning more than anything.
- Vidalia and Waycross, Georgia
- Murray, Kentucky
- Alexandria, Louisiana
- Rolla, Missouri
- Columbus and Yazoo City, Mississippi
- Albemarle, Greenville and Morehead City, North Carolina
- Sandusky, Ohio
- Morristown, Tennessee
- Abilene, Texas
- Logan, Utah
Below is a table of how all the major carriers in the US are shaping up with LTE service.
source: Light Reading
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