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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • This is simply not correct… I’ve been with sprint in Puerto Rico
    for 10 years and I still don’t have 4G service in San Juan… Gimme a break!!!

  • Still nothing in Saint Louis. Which was a launch day Verizon market, and AT&T hit fairly early too.

    Have to wonder if T-Mobile might even beat Sprint to it in the market – it seems like the market is 100% 1900Mhz HSPA already, my wife is running a phone without AWS and gets the same coverage I do on my Nexus 4. So AWS would be ready to move over to LTE basically immediately.

  • Beer City USA!! Nice to see our small town on there… even if I’ve been screaming along on VZW LTE for nearly two years.

    • Smaller cities=easier rollout. Last weekend i was in asheville and the lte coverage was pretty decent

    • Sprint is going for volume. It looks better to say they have 30+ markets with LTE coverage then it does to say we have 5 markets but they are major cities.

    • It makes sense if you actually understand the criteria dictating a roll-out strategy rather than just assuming its population based…

      • It is population based to an extent. Look at all the places that have it, they aren’t in a single major city. There rollout has been in all small areas like Altoona, and Albany, GA. Not, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, NYC. So to argue that their rollout ISN’T population based is a complete joke.

        • I used words like ‘just’ and ‘based’ to suggest that there are various other criteria that factor into the strategy. I’m not saying population isn’t a factor at all, I’m simply stating that its not the only consideration when choosing when and where to roll-out as most people tend to assume.

          As for your “joke”, the roll-out ISN’T population BASED. But at some point population does probably factor in….behind things like cost, resources, and available bandwidth.

  • Generic “Sprint doesn’t have LTE here but Verizon/US Cellular/AT&T/whatever does” comment

    • Isn’t it always with Sprint? I escaped a month ago. Couldn’t be happier to be away from the crippled data speed and empty promises.

  • I get great WiMAX coverage and speed here (15-20Mbps, not kidding you). But there’s absolutely NO LTE roll-out guidance for my area in the foreseeable future.

    Sort of a conundrum for me because I like the fast 4G speeds I’m getting now and my upgrade is coming up in two months. I guess I’ll wait it out a little longer and maybe see what the next Nexus phone brings in the fall and maybe jump ship to a GSM carrier or MVNO.

  • San Juan and Puerto Rico are listed separately? One is the city, the other is the entire island… it just doesn’t make sense, which is it Sprint? 🙂

    • In the actual article they are listed like so:

      Altoona, Pa., Asheville, N.C., Columbus, Ind., Elkhart/Goshen, Ind., Hammond, La., La Crosse, Wis., San Juan, Puerto Rico, Statesville, N.C., and Temple, Texas

      So the summary above is wrong. It should be listed as San Juan, Puerto Rico on one line.

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