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Sprint Expands LTE to 22 More Cities

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Jun 17, 2013, 9:16 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

Sprint today announced that its LTE 4G network now covers 22 new markets around the U.S. The new markets include Napa, Calif.; Dalton, Ga.; Gainesville, Miami, Palatka, Sebring, and Tampa, Fla.; Warsaw, Ind.; Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La.; Lansing/East Lansing and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor, Mich.; St. Cloud, Minn.; Dunn, Henderson, and Raleigh, N.C.; Clarksville and Kingsport, Tenn.; Corsicana, Texas; Centralia and Longview, Wash.; and Fond du Lac, Wis. According to Sprint, today's expansion boosts the total number of LTE markets to 110. Sprint also named more markets that are on deck to receive LTE later this year, including a handful of cities each in Michigan, Texas, and Wisconsin.

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michael_herc

Jun 17, 2013, 10:02 AM

Medium-Sized Cities

It's interesting that many of the cities Sprint is launching LTE in are medium-sized cities. For example, here in Michigan, the cities they've recently launched and the ones they are slating to launch are all our medium-sized cities. Detroit is noticeably absent.
Simply put, why would you put new and untested equipment in a large market with the greater chance to fail? When you can first launch in smaller markets and fine tune the process. Sprint is doing a great job with building out their LTE network.
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Keep in mind that bigger cities require more towers to be upgraded so that takes a little longer since it has a wider geographic and population footprint. Itll come by the end of the year be patient. ;)

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Or Stockton...The only reason Napa needs LTE is for the Sprint cup race at Sonoma. Stockton is HISTORICALLY bad, and it's one of Sprints biggest markets. We were one of the first to have Wi-MAX, so why the delay with LTE?
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It just amazes me how Sprint does things the wrong way. Makes bad decisions left and right. The other carriers didn't have any issues with LTE. Even T-Mobile who was worse off than Sprint is doing LTE the right way. There's reports of it even showing ...
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michael_herc said:
It's interesting that many of the cities Sprint is launching LTE in are medium-sized cities. For example, here in Michigan, the cities they've recently launched and the ones they are slating to launch are all our
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