Madison officially has LTE for Sprint, as of Dec 16th.
As of this moment at my office in Middleton, I’m getting 4 Mbps down and 1.1 Mbps up. Compared with some other 4G reports I’ve seen, those aren’t stunning stats but compared with the ~100 Kbps of Sprint’s local 3G it’s a huge boost (and, sadly, it’s slightly faster than my 4M/512K DSL at home…)
http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/4glte-launchedmarkets.htm
Mark Meyer yes, I’ve been following that thread. I was surprised by the lack of comments about the official announcement.
Mark Meyer true, but to me it means I can legitimately complain when it’s down rather than just being grateful when it’s up. 🙂
With my discount carrier, I pay extra for LTE service vs. just 3G. So now I feel like that extra monthly payment isn’t just for playing around.
This also means unlimited* LTE for Republic Wireless at $40 per month. Woot!
* Really, 5 GB max with no penalty for going over if you don’t routinely abuse it.
You have to break that 5GB twice in 6 months to be throttled down, but with the way our Hybrid WiFi Cellular software works, that is next to impossible to do.
T-Mobile in AZ, in city areas I get 20-35Mbps, $70 unl data/text/call. Sprint needs to seriously catch up.
David Miller, they both need to catch up to Republic Wireless. The crazy part is that RW piggybacks on Sprint’s network and yet it’s half the price!
T-Mobile just bought A Block 700mhz from VZ, and their LTE deployment is faster than any other carrier. Republic and Virgin use Sprints already bottlenecked network and speeds are on low end 3G.