'cities'

Verizon Wireless lights up 4G LTE in nine new markets, expands footprint in five cities

By: |May 19th, 2011 at 05:04PM
Filed Under: Carriers - US, Mobile, Services
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Verizon Wireless on Thursday confirmed that its 4G LTE network is now available in Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama; Greater Fairfield and New Haven, Connecticut; Gainesville Pensacola and Tallahassee Florida; Fayetteville-Lumberton, North Carolina; and Bryan-College Station and Temple-Killeen, Texas. The nation’s largest wireless carrier also said that it’s expanding the 4G footprint that is already available in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, to cover more customers. Veriz...

Verizon adds additional cities to LTE portfolio

By: |Apr 18th, 2011 at 09:58PM
Filed Under: Carriers - US, Mobile
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Verizon Wireless today announced the addition of a handful of new LTE markets coming online later this week: Columbia and Hilton Head, South Carolina; Wilmington, North Carolina; Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and Lehigh Valley Airport in Pennsylvania; along with Cleveland and Clarksville, Tennessee. The bushel of markets were foreshadowed by Verizon earlier today — the company tweeted that “a mess of new cities and towns” were being added to its LTE portfolio. If you are located in any of the ...

T-Mobile brings HSPA+ to 5 additional cities; 157 markets now covered

By: |Mar 11th, 2011 at 06:21AM
Filed Under: Carriers - US
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Via a short press release, T-Mobile announced the addition of five metropolitan areas to its HSPA+ portfolio. Des Moines, Iowa; Gainesville and Panama City, Florida; Monterey, California; and Savannah, Georgia will now have access to T-Mobile’s 21Mbps, HSPA+, 4G network. The company notes that customers can expect real-world speeds between 5Mbps and 12Mbps depending on network traffic. T-Mobile now covers 157 markets with its 21Mbps, HSPA+ network, and expects to double speeds to 42Mbps in 2011. (more&#...

Breaking

Verizon’s LTE website goes live just before news conference

By: |Dec 1st, 2010 at 11:51AM
Filed Under: Breaking, Carriers - US
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Verizon is set to officially unveil its LTE launch plans in just a few minutes. Ahead of that scheduled announcement, the company has gone live with its 4G, LTE website, which includes details on launch markets (38 cites, 60 airports), available devices (currently two data sticks), and a handy service locator (so you can see if you’ll be covered). The LTE network, along with the LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 4G data-sticks will all be available starting on December 5th. Hit the read link to check it out f...

Sprint launches WiMAX network in six additional cities

By: |Nov 29th, 2010 at 07:04AM
Filed Under: Carriers - US
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Early this morning, U.S. Wireless carrier Sprint announced it has blanketed Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio with its WiMAX network. “With the addition of these six markets, Sprint 4G is now available in 68 markets across the country, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and New York City,” reads the press release. Sprint also announced “that it expects to launch the San Francisco market – home to Silicon Valley and thousands of t...

Breaking

Verizon: 38 cities, 60 airports to be blessed with LTE by end of this year

By: |Oct 6th, 2010 at 01:56PM
Filed Under: Breaking, LTE, Verizon
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Today at CTIA, Verizon Wireless announced that its next generation, LTE, 4G network will cover 38 major U.S. cities and 60 additional airports by the end of 2010. Some of the initial cities getting LTE include: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The official press release, with a full list of cities an airports, is after the bre...

T-Mobile lights up an additional 16 U.S. markets with HSPA+

By: |Oct 4th, 2010 at 08:44AM
Filed Under: T-Mobile
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T-Mobile has been on a PR tear in the last few days. Magenta announced the addition of 16 U.S. cities to their HSPA+ network portfolio. Biloxi and Gulfport, MS; Denver, CO; Huntsville, AL.; Knoxville, TN; Myrtle Beach, SC; Norfolk, VA.; Omaha, NE; Phoenix and Tucson, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento, CA; and West Palm Beach, FL. T-Mo reiterated that they will have HSPA+ coverage available in 100 markets by the end of 2010.

Sprint adds 4G coverage to three more cities

By: |Sep 1st, 2010 at 09:02AM
Filed Under: 4G, 4G Center, Sprint
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Today, Sprint officially announced the additions of Boston, MA; Daytona Beach, FL; and Providence, RI to their list of cities officially blanketed in 4G covered. There isn’t really much else to say about it. Here is a quick statement from Sprint: “We are proud to be the leader in the race to 4G. Sprint is the first national wireless carrier to make 4G a reality for our customers. [...] we have been hearing from our customers in Boston, Providence and Daytona Beach that they want and need 4G servi...

T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network expanded to 9 additional cities

By: |Aug 31st, 2010 at 07:00PM
Filed Under: HSPA, T-Mobile
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Just a quick note, T-Mobile has released a short press announcement to let you know that their HSPA+ network (for which there are not HSPA+ phones… yet) has just been expanded to nine additional cities. If you live in Boston, MA; Erie, PA; Fresno, CA; Palm Springs, CA; San Diego, CA; Miami, FL; Richmond, VA; Spokane, WA; or Topeka, KS you are now covered by the HSPA+ goodness. Here is the official announcement:Today, T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced the continued expansion of its super-fast mobile broadban...

Exclusives

T-Mobile launching HSPA+ service in 19 cities on July 21st, offering HSPA+ netbook

By: |Jul 13th, 2010 at 06:01PM
Filed Under: Exclusives, HSPA, Networks, T-Mobile
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We just received a heads up that T-Mobile will be rolling out some HSPA+ insanity speeds to the following markets on July 21st:Austin, TXBaltimore, MDBirmingham, ALCincinnati, OHCleveland, OHColumbus, OHEl Paso, TXFt. Worth, TXHawaii, HIIndianapolis, INJacksonville, FLKansas City, MOLouisville, TNMilwaukee, WIMinneapolis, MNPortland, ORSan Antonio, TXWashington, D.C.Wichita, KSAdditionally, T-Mobile will be launching the new webConnect Rocket 2.0 USB data stick on July 21st with an “enhanced design̶...