AT&T Mobility continues to parse out coverage of its recently launched LTE service, announcing plans to add six new markets beginning Nov. 20. The new markets will include Charlotte, N.C.; Indianapolis; Kansas City; Las Vegas; Oklahoma City; and San Juan, P.R.
AT&T Mobility currently offers its LTE service in nine markets and has said it plans to have 70 million potential customers covered by the end of the year.
Rival Verizon Wireless, which began rolling out LTE services late last year, recently surpassed the 185 million pop coverage mark, with plans to add 13 additional markets later this week.
AT&T Mobility originally relied on upgrades to its HSPA-based network in order to compete in the burgeoning “4G” marketing wars, but has since began to push more heavily into its LTE deployment. The carrier does continue to tout its HSPA-based service as having higher “fall-back” speeds compared with Verizon Wireless’ CDMA-based network when customers are outside of LTE coverage, though Verizon Wireless claims it will have LTE coverage equal to its CDMA footprint by the end of 2013.
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