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AT&T to Deploy LTE by Mid-2011

Sep 16, 2010, 2:18 PM by Eric M. Zeman

According to AT&T's operations CEO John Stankey, the company plans to launch its Long Term Evolution network by the middle of 2011. AT&T aims to cover 70 to 75 million pops by the end of 2011 in an unspecified number of markets. Stankey said that AT&T will develop its LTE network to coexist and work alongside itss UMTS/HSDPA network, which it will continue to invest in and expand. AT&T plans to spend $700 million on its LTE network this year, and "way beyond that" in 2011. AT&T also said that it plans to upgrade its existing HSPA network to HSPA+ by the end of 2010, which should bump download speeds to a theoretical max of 7.2Mbps.

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Azeron

Sep 19, 2010, 12:10 AM

Bi Boy Math

So can anyone give me a guess as to what "way more than" 700 million is?

shadowleo

Sep 18, 2010, 10:23 AM

still not faster than tmobile

im just saying

NHCharmedOne

Sep 16, 2010, 2:33 PM

Oh joy

How about instead of all that money for new stuff, they use it to fix the towers that are having issues with dropped calls and no service at all, 3-4-5 months go by and still no service and all we ever hear is, everythig is fine, no issues at all dont know why you have no service, here buy this and this and this...

GeeksAreBest

Maybe if you'd read some of the previous articles about AT&T you'd know that there's a pretty big chunk of cash being put into the network this year? Most of the improvements are going to be in by the end of the year, but there's still some stuff that...
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T Bone

Huh? What do you call upgrading to LTE if not 'spending money to improve the network?' this complaint doesn't make any sense

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