The other carriers may already be rocking some 4G LTE high-speed action,
but Sprint is slowly but surely catching up at this high-speed game
too. San Francisco got its first taste of Sprint LTE about a month ago,
but now coverage has expanded in “some pockets” of the city that were
missing out the first time around.
Sprint has also started to roll out more 4G LTE coverage in other
cities across the United States too, including New York City and
Washington, DC, as well as some parts of the state of New York, plus
select cities in Florida like Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa. The San
Francisco coverage has been spotty at best, so hopefully this added
rollout will help. That said, Sprint isn’t ready for a full commercial
launch until they can get “a density of sites to indicate that our
customers should consistently have a great 4G LTE experience,” according
to company spokesperson Kelly Schlageter.
You can
check the Sprint website
directly for coverage maps to see if you’ve got any 4G LTE happening in
your area. As this coverage expands, the secondary hope is that
FreedomPop–which uses the Sprint network–can make the leap from WiMAX to
LTE too. Sprint has indicated that it is slightly behind its original
goal of “near nationwide” LTE by the end of 2013, but they should have
coverage for 250 million Americans by early next year.
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