T-Mobile may be two years late to the LTE party, but it has some ambitious rollout plans for its 4G network. In a press release yesterday, the carrier said it hopes to cover 200 million+ subscribers with LTE by the end of 2013.
But not wanting to give up any ground to the Deutsche Telekom-owned company, AT&T announced today some enterprising rollout plans of its own. The carrier says it will add LTE to 79 new markets by the end of the summer…
Here are the cities AT&T says will get LTE coverage before the end of September:
- Athens, TX
- Florence / Muscle Shoals, AL
- Huntsville, AL
- Monroeville / Evergreen, AL
- Troy / Greenville, AL
- Tuscaloosa, AL
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Chico, CA
- Merced, CA
- Visalia, CA
- Dover, DE
- Lake City, FL
- Ocala, FL
- Hancock, GA
- Jefferson / Commerce (Jackson County), GA
- Valdosta, GA
- Davenport, IA
- Champaign, IL
- Rockford, IL
- Columbus, IN
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Manhattan, KS
- Topeka, KS
- Elizabethtown, KY
- New Iberia, LA
- Shreveport, LA
- Cape Cod, MA
- Leonardtown, MD
- Flint, MI
- Lansing, MI
- Muskegon, MI
- Saginaw, MI
- Duluth, MN
- Cape Girardeau, MO
- Columbia, MO
- Biloxi-Gulfport, MS
- Corinth / New Albany, MS
- Greenwood / Cleveland, MS
- Meridian / Philadelphia, MS
- Asheville, NC
- Goldsboro, NC
- Kinston, NC
- Portsmouth, NH
- Atlantic City, NJ
- Millville, NJ
- Southern NJ Shore Points, NJ
- Farmington, NM
- Gallup, NM
- Batavia, NY
- Cortland, NY
- Seneca Falls, NY
- Dayton, OH
- Wooster, OH
- Youngstown, OH
- Salem, OR
- Williamsport, PA
- Anderson, SC
- Chattanooga, TN
- Cookeville, TN
- Brownsville-Harlingen, TX
- Corsicana, TX
- Huntsville, TX
- Laredo, TX
- Lufkin-Nacogdoches, TX
- McAllen, TX
- Paris, TX
- Sherman-Denison, TX
- Texarkana, TX
- Victoria, TX
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
- St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
- Petersburg, VA
- Roanoke, VA
- Spokane, WA
- Huntington, WV
- Morgantown, WV
- Laramie, WY
AT&T currently has the second largest LTE network—which covers just under 300 million people—in the United States, right behind Verizon. Then there’s Sprint in third place, and T-Mobile, who just launched LTE his year, in last.