AT&T announced plans to launch LTE in five markets this summer — Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio. It plans to add 10 or more markets in the second half of the year. Trials have delivered performance that is consistent with others. This would give AT&T an LTE footprint covering 70 million Americans by year-end.
In a presentation at a Barclays Conference, John Stankey noted that the average actual speed on the nationwide AT&T has improved by 40% thanks to upgrades to HSPA 7.2 and more recently HSPA+.http://www.att.com
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You just read about LTE. Here is what it replaced:
WiMAX (802.16) served 2001–2015. What ultimately replaced it?
WiMAX (802.16) oFDMA-based fixed/mobile broadband: base stations scheduled uplink/downlink slots to subscriber stations across wide channels with carrier-grade QoS - on the losing side of the LTE ecosystem. Its job passed to LTE — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
announced plans to launch LTE in five markets this summer — Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio. It plans to add 10 or more markets in the second half of the year. Trials have delivered performance that is consistent with others. This would give AT&T an LTE footprint covering 70 million Americans by year-end. 
