Nelson:
ATT is in the middle (right now) of spending $19B to upgrade all of their cell sites to be LTE ready 3G platforms. What this means is, as they say here:
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?cdvn=news&newsarticleid=30493&pid=4800
Everything gets prepped this year, and they start turning over LTE in 2011.
http://gizmodo.com/5468470/att-to-deploy-4g-lte-network-in-2011
To give a comparison:
HSPA 7.2: 7Mbps (tops), this is 3.5G, basically as some call it.
LTE: 140Mbps - 300Mbps.
Verizon plans to have all the top 25 markets covered by years end with LTE, and top 50 by the end of 2011, with nationwide completion by 2013.
ATT plans to have "test markets" (unnamed) online this year, Top 30 markets by June 1, 2011, Top 50 by December 2011, and all complete by 2013.
Both networks are screaming toward 4G as fast as they can go.
Meanwhle, ATT while prepping the sites with new fiber runs, is supposedly taking a chunk of money and eliminating all remaining 2G towers (EDGE) by upgrading them to 3G.
ATT is in the middle (right now) of spending $19B to upgrade all of their cell sites to be LTE ready 3G platforms. What this means is, as they say here:
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?cdvn=news&newsarticleid=30493&pid=4800
Everything gets prepped this year, and they start turning over LTE in 2011.
http://gizmodo.com/5468470/att-to-deploy-4g-lte-network-in-2011
To give a comparison:
HSPA 7.2: 7Mbps (tops), this is 3.5G, basically as some call it.
LTE: 140Mbps - 300Mbps.
Verizon plans to have all the top 25 markets covered by years end with LTE, and top 50 by the end of 2011, with nationwide completion by 2013.
ATT plans to have "test markets" (unnamed) online this year, Top 30 markets by June 1, 2011, Top 50 by December 2011, and all complete by 2013.
Both networks are screaming toward 4G as fast as they can go.
Meanwhle, ATT while prepping the sites with new fiber runs, is supposedly taking a chunk of money and eliminating all remaining 2G towers (EDGE) by upgrading them to 3G.