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Tiffany Kaiser - September 10, 2012 4:41 PM

22 comment(s) - last by brentpresley.. on Sep 11 at 9:15 PM

(Source: androidauthority.com)

The release is expected to happen over "the coming months"

Only days before the iPhone 5's release, Sprint has announced that it's expanding its 4G LTE to more than 100 cities throughout 2012.

Sprint started rolling out its 4G LTE service on July 15. Currently, Sprint offers 4G LTE connectivity in 19 cities in the United States, including Houston; Atlanta; Baltimore; Dallas; Athens, Georgia; Calhoun, Georgia; Carrollton, Georgia; Newnan, Georgia; Rome, Georgia; Fort Worth, Texas; Gainesville, Georgia; Granbury-Hood County, Texas; Huntsville, Texas; Kansas City, Montana/Kansas City, Kansas; Manhattan/Junction City, Kansas; San Antonio, Texas; Sedalia, Montana; Waco, Texas and St. Joseph, Montana.

The new 4G LTE offerings will now spread further across the U.S., entering cities like Boston, Chicago and New Orleans.

"We are committed to delivering a cutting-edge network as quickly as possible, one that provides a greater level of reliability and speed to our 3G and 4G customers," said Bob Azzi, senior vice president of Network for Sprint. "We know our customers depend on their mobile devices as their primary source of communication, business, connectivity and entertainment. We want to deliver a network that delivers mobile access, productivity and entertainment at a highly competitive price point."

Sprint's complete list of cities to receive the 4G LTE network in the coming months can be found here.

Sprint, which obtained the iPhone for the first time last fall when the iPhone 4S was released, could likely be preparing for the iPhone 5’s release in two days. The iPhone 5 is the first Apple smartphone to have 4G LTE connectivity.

Source: Sprint

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RE: Bye bye Sprint

By mcnabney on 9/11/2012 9:15:08 AM , Rating: 2

You can't compare what Sprint promises by EOY with what AT&T can meagerly deliver now. Apples and Oranges.

I also suspect the footprint in some of these cities might be tiny. For example - Sprint is HQ'd in Kansas City, but their LTE footprint barely covers half of the city. They can claim that they are providing LTE in KC, but when half the city is dark - that is going to cause serious fallout and returns. Especially with the iPhone, because it doesn't have Wimax - when there is no LTE the customer is stuck with Sprint's extremely slow and bogged down EVDO.

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