AT&T Wireless may claim to cover 97 percent of all Americans but they aren’t touting that coverage too much this weekend while launching LTE capabilities in just 5 markets, five times less coverage than the recently launched Verizon Wireless 4G LTE offering.
Ma Bell announced over the weekend that they have launched LTE towers in Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio, Dallas / Fort Worth and Houston
In response to their launch AT&T officials have provided a coverage map (shown above) and have promised to expand 4G LTE technology to 15 other major metropolitan markets before the end of 2011.
AT&T has been quick to point out that the markets are covered by LTE technology and not HSPA+ which is slower than their new offering.
Notice the amount of AT&T area on the map that is only covered by lousy Edge data technology, AT&T can call their coverage area whatever they want but the truth of the matter is they are quickly losing an increasing amount of ground to Verizon in the battle of network technology.
If you happen to be in one of the LTE 4G markets let us know what you think about the new 4G offering. Just remember only LTE supported devices will witness increased data rates.
