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Verizon LTE Coming to "a mess of cities and towns" Thursday

http://twitter.com/#!/VerizonWireless/status/59968063570837504
Anybody see a press release for this on where it is coming? I would love to see it in Springfield, MA! I doubt it though as I haven't seen it come on for "testing" as some other cities have.

Would love for Portland, OR to be one of them.

http://news.vzw.com/news/2011/04/pr2011-04-18.html

madzozs said:
http://news.vzw.com/news/2011/04/pr2011-04-18.html
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Hardly a "mess of new cities and towns". A mess to me would be 10-15+. Not 5...back to waiting I guess.

Stein357 said:
Would love for Portland, OR to be one of them.
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I've seen a couple of postings that folks around here (Portland) have had 4G on and off over the past couple weeks. Was in a VZW corporate store (Bridgeport) the other day and the tech person noted that it had been on and off lately--she assumed for testing.
It's been on at PDX for sometime, as I'm sure you know. I hope the signal spreads to SW of the city where I am.

inzandity said:
Hardly a "mess of new cities and towns". A mess to me would be 10-15+. Not 5...back to waiting I guess.
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I don't think that's it. Expect to see the vast majority of cities from the initial update to the LTE coverage list (not this most recent one) receive their connectivity on Thursday. And expect a lot more of those mini-press releases. They'll probably do one for each major area that gets 4G LTE turned on.
edit: Like I said, they've already got two more tweets up with areas that are getting it, plus two more mini-press releases.

sc4fpse said:
I don't think that's it. Expect to see the vast majority of cities from the initial update to the LTE coverage list (not this most recent one) receive their connectivity on Thursday. And expect a lot more of those mini-press releases. They'll probably do one for each major area that gets 4G LTE turned on.
edit: Like I said, they've already got two more tweets up with areas that are getting it, plus two more mini-press releases.
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Yeah I saw that...i keep refreshing my twitter feed waiting for MA to show
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Come to Utah 4g
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inzandity said:
Yeah I saw that...i keep refreshing my twitter feed waiting for MA to show
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Flint, MI, my home town, is one of the cities on that initial list I referred to. I have a feeling they'll light it up on Thursday, which is the same day I'm heading home for Easter. I'm gonna have to come up with some money for a Thunderbolt quick, haha.
I'm really curious to see what kind of LTE signal strength I get at my home, though. Currently, I get an average of 1 bar of signal strength on 3G. In one corner of my upstairs bedroom, 2 bars. Downstairs there are dead zones everywhere (including for voice. Mom still doesn't understand that she needs to stay in one place when she calls me on her cell phone from home, or else I can't hear her!). My understanding is that 4G LTE has a bit more range to it than 3G, and that you'll still get decent transfer rates when you have low signal strength due to the different way LTE sends data packets. I really hope I can finally get some decent data speeds at my house now.

I wonder what the I-78 corridor is, does that mean they are covering the highway between the 3 cities? Because I thought they were covering the whole area of the cities so it would be one big blob. The only other meaning I can infer is that they plan to cover I-78 for the extra 15-20 miles or so from easton to where their NYC coverage runs out. I guess we'll see exactly what happens on the 21st, I can't wait.

Come on austin, TX....
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They have been tweeting each new press release.
http://twitter.com/#!/VerizonWireless
Come on Sioux Falls

No Tucson?
Lame.

Man, talk about lame...
Columbia and Hilton Head get it, but I'm in Charleston

They dont have any sites in virginia. Northern va is part of the dc area and bristol is part of the bristol tenn area. So they have a very long freaking way to go here.
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xgonzox said:
Come to Utah 4g
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for real. I am in southern utah. At least I get 4g when I go to vegas.

Still no Little Rock, W.T.F.

Test in MOBILE, AL. "_BLAZING FAST_"
Test Date: Apr 18, 2011 1:42:46 pm
Connection Type: Cell
Download: 9.33 Mbps
Upload: 34.17 Mbps
Ping: 137 ms
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surreaL1st said:
Man, talk about lame...
Columbia and Hilton Head get it, but I'm in Charleston
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Pshh Columbia and Hilton Head who in the heck lives in Hilton Head i figured Greenville SC would get it before Columbia because Greenville is a major Market area

lol been on in the Lehigh Valley for 3 weeks now. Funny

4G

I have 4g LTE in mount laurel, NJ today.
This is the first time since march 17 , I can say that.
Do they just turn it on here?

the same thing happened to me. i bought my thunderbolt a week ago, no 4G anywhere, today i got 4G at both of my jobs, several towns apart. i hit 7mbps in one and 14mbps in another :-D a verizon rep told me they must be testing it in my area (central CT) because it's officially not here.... yet ;p

Legolus said:
I have 4g LTE in mount laurel, NJ today.
This is the first time since march 17 , I can say that.
Do they just turn it on here?
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Mount Laurel in Marlton area? I mean looking at their map the coverage spreads almost to that spot, sounds like an expansion they are testing out to increase the size of the area around philly.

They must have expanded it, I still have it on today.
I was out of the phila area before this.

4G in Milwaukee!!

Just got 4g turned up, I'm in Milwaukee WI!!! I'm in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, about 10 minutes west of downtown.
It's faster by speed test than my cablemodem. how f'd is that?!

gsxr1kmatt said:
It's faster by speed test than my cablemodem. how f'd is that?!
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Ha ha yeah. It is. So far the only speeds that match it is Fios (and docsis3.0 speeds). but they don't have that everywhere.

I guess I should clarify.. I dont give a crap about anything faster than 5mb down...it's upload speeds that matter to me.
Cablemodem speeds. Road Runner btw
T-bolt.

This is GREAT NEWS!! I live in Racine ...just south of Milwaukee wonder if this means we will have it soon?! I work in Zion ,Ill and have 4g there. Anyways ...thanks for the heads up!

Ohh wow. That upload is slower than my dsl.
I wish ISPs would start focusing on upload speeds too. With all this talk about cloud computing and certain ISPs providing like 50GB of online backup space, you'd think we can get a decent upload speed.

gsxr1kmatt said:
Just got 4g turned up, I'm in Milwaukee WI!!! I'm in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, about 10 minutes west of downtown.
It's faster by speed test than my cablemodem. how f'd is that?!
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That's great news! Unfortunately I'm not seeming to pick up a signal and I'm in Brown Deer (northern milwaukee county). I will have to try when I go closer to downtown tonight. Are you getting a consistent signal or was it only for a bit? I don't believe anything has been announced yet.
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Tosa was turned on today! I noticed Cudahy had it when I was there Sunday. That was surprising....

potcryan said:
That's great news! Unfortunately I'm not seeming to pick up a signal and I'm in Brown Deer (northern milwaukee county). I will have to try when I go closer to downtown tonight. Are you getting a consistent signal or was it only for a bit? I don't believe anything has been announced yet.
All of downtown, the third ward, and the airport have had it for at least the few weeks that I've had my TB. I dropped my wife off at the airport a couple weeks ago at around 5am. Pulled 28.8, 25, and 22 DL on separate tries. I picked her up in the afternoon the next day and got 10-15 DL. Very impresssed.
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I'm deeper into the city, not far from miller park and still not getting a signal. Do you guys have your phones set to CDMA/LTE auto or just straight LTE mode? I want my 4glte!
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There has been 4g in Milwaukee since the tb was released. It has been my experience that it goes west about to 35th and south to around College. I do occasionally get 4g going more south and west but it seems to be strongest in dt Milwaukee.

i'm in Waukesha. Considering buying this phone.

P-funk_droid said:
This is GREAT NEWS!! I live in Racine ...just south of Milwaukee wonder if this means we will have it soon?! I work in Zion ,Ill and have 4g there. Anyways ...thanks for the heads up!
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Cool, I live in Racine too!

4G is trash...at least for me...I live in Greenfield and even in strong areas of 4G coverage I cannot complete a single large download...tried different handsets, SIM cards, ROMs and radios...it's the towers.
Not impressed and wish I kept my Droid Incredible

Congrats I noticed 4G working in Green Bay about a month ago, if I member correctly I was drinking a lil so got more excited than I should of
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Speaking of LTE in Milwaukee...
Either a lot more are running on the LTE now in Milwaukee, or the radio's in our LTE phones are being capped. I've been noticing some pretty bad performance some days. Even with full strength, only pulling 2mbps down yet 13mbps up..

I sure hope 4G spreads all the way between Green Bay and Milwaukee someday - I am about halfway between the two cities and really wanting that extra G! Lol
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I'm kinda SOL when it comes to ANY stable data at house.
I live in semi-rural area of Racine, and my house is almost a Verizon dead spot.
I can sit in my house and only get 1-3 bars of 3G, and maybe 1.2mbps down at MAX.
However I can walk to either edge of my 8 acre property and pick up the LTE, and get 1-2 bars and pull 5-10mbps.

Same here but I live in the city of Milwaukee
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4g expanding in areas not mentioned

I read the recent PR release and nothing was mentioned about my area. I'm in Southern Indiana near Louisville KY. Louisville has had 4g since Derby but recently 4G expanded about 6 miles north of the river in New Albany, Clarksville, & Jeffersonville Indiana!
Anybody else see unexpected 4g locations?
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They included Fremont, OH with the Toledo, OH upgrade. It's not officially on yet, but it is on. I don't know how much of Northwest OH was covered with the upgrade for sure though.

Been covering Penn State here for a while, never reached my house though. Recently however I've been getting LTE in the mornings at home, so they're expanding here somewhat.
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They officially added Tallahassee, Florida awhile back but I rarely see 4g here. I get it at my house and a few restaurants and that's it. I've seen the 4g icon while driving but as soon as I park it normally drops to 3g. This really pisses me off because this is the only reason I left my X for the Thunderbolt.

Bunnywinkles said:
They included Fremont, OH with the Toledo, OH upgrade. It's not officially on yet, but it is on. I don't know how much of Northwest OH was covered with the upgrade for sure though.
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oh gawd! PLEEEEESE!
I'm outside of Lima where you at, brah?

It's nice seeing these "unofficial" additions to coverage. This is one thing I have to give Verizon props on, network expansion. They are aggressive about it. They may be shy about approving/certifying phones but they know how to build out a network fast!

michaelkahl said:
It's nice seeing these "unofficial" additions to coverage. This is one thing I have to give Verizon props on, network expansion. They are aggressive about it. They may be shy about approving/certifying phones but they know how to build out a network fast!
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maybe it's on, but they don't want to announce it because they are still testing it.

there is always the other side of the coin as well, like he originally announced markets that still have no 4g...yea I'm pointing the finger at Raleigh/Durham

Maybe the most densely populated state could get some... NEW JERSEY!?!? "why would we want to cover the most people? " silly Verizon...
THUNDERBOLT

ncwildcat said:
there is always the other side of the coin as well, like he originally announced markets that still have no 4g...yea I'm pointing the finger at Raleigh/Durham
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I hear you. I live in Greenville, NC. You can imagine how sad I was when I saw they announced 4G for Greenville SC, not Greenville NC. As someone who is in Raleigh/Durham area a few times a month, 4G there would be nice also... but no, Wilmington gets all the 4G love. It's only because VZW has corporate headquarters in Wilmington for our area.
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JFMFT said:
I hear you. I live in Greenville, NC. You can imagine how sad I was when I saw they announced 4G for Greenville SC, not Greenville NC. As someone who is in Raleigh/Durham area a few times a month, 4G there would be nice also... but no, Wilmington gets all the 4G love. It's only because VZW has corporate headquarters in Wilmington for our area.
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We won't see it here in Greensboro until January now.

Bunnywinkles said:
They included Fremont, OH with the Toledo, OH upgrade. It's not officially on yet, but it is on. I don't know how much of Northwest OH was covered with the upgrade for sure though.
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When did they upgrade Toledo? I was out that way memorial day weekend with no 4h.
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I've been getting 4G at my house in Portland, OR as of Thursday

elliott35 said:
Maybe the most densely populated state could get some... NEW JERSEY!?!? "why would we want to cover the most people? " silly Verizon...
THUNDERBOLT
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EXACTLY!!!! I'm in northcentral and its barely active. AND VERIZONS MAIN HEADQUAETERS IS HERE IS BASKING RIDGE!!
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Bunnywinkles said:
They included Fremont, OH with the Toledo, OH upgrade. It's not officially on yet, but it is on. I don't know how much of Northwest OH was covered with the upgrade for sure though.
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I live in the extreme northwst corner of Ohio and as far as i know, no 4g (might have to turn the 4g radio in my TB on)

elliott35 said:
Maybe the most densely populated state could get some... NEW JERSEY!?!? "why would we want to cover the most people? " silly Verizon...
THUNDERBOLT
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They're rolling it out, just unnanounced. I've had LTE in Whippany, NJ (Morris County) for a couple of weeks, and have it as well in most of the surrounding areas.

I'm in Toledo right now by the GM Power train plant and no 4g here. Soon I hope

in Toledo too, no 4g yet, i hope soon though

Slack3r said:
They're rolling it out, just unnanounced. I've had LTE in Whippany, NJ (Morris County) for a couple of weeks, and have it as well in most of the surrounding areas.
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I'm in Morristown and its hit or miss..(especially inside my house..)
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JFMFT said:
I hear you. I live in Greenville, NC. You can imagine how sad I was when I saw they announced 4G for Greenville SC, not Greenville NC. As someone who is in Raleigh/Durham area a few times a month, 4G there would be nice also... but no, Wilmington gets all the 4G love. It's only because VZW has corporate headquarters in Wilmington for our area.
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Don't forget Fayetteville. For some reason, Fayetteville got 4G before RDU. I found this out as I was driving down to Savannah. I picked up my phone and it said "4G LTE" while I was driving down the I-95 Fayetteville bypass, and I was like, "Huh?"
I live in the Raleigh/Durham area, and I'm originally from Winston-Salem. The latest I got from VZW is that RDU should get 4G by the end of Q3, but who knows if that's going to happen. Last I checked, the Triad was still on the list for 2011 4G, so hopefully that happens too.

Lima, Ohio LTE testing

It appears as if Lima, Ohio will be soon joining the 4G parade.
a test deployment for over an hour and half went out last night. It popped in and out from about 1250 to 230 am.
to be noted, 3g speeds are currently ridiculously fast, reading 1667 dl/831 ul as tested by speedtest.

Your in west ohio right I'm in northeast ohio the youngstown/warren area and we haven't seen a nitch.
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brisdaddy1207 said:
Your in west ohio right I'm in northeast ohio the youngstown/warren area and we haven't seen a nitch.
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yes, NW Ohio, about 70 miles south of Toledo.
I know they are looking to expand Columbus and Cinci on Aug 18, maybe they will launch us then.
/waiting game

Dayton is covered too. And so is Bowling Green. And Fostoria of all places!

loonatik78 said:
Dayton is covered too. And so is Bowling Green. And Fostoria of all places!
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yes, the head of LTE deployment is a Buckeye fan
as for Fo-town, yes...perplexing, but I'm sure all the 4G phones sold there are bulletproof

obededom said:
yes, the head of LTE deployment is a Buckeye fan
as for Fo-town, yes...perplexing, but I'm sure all the 4G phones sold there are bulletproof
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Hmmm... It does seem Ohio has the best LTE coverage by percent than just about any other state. It's almost hard to avoid it now.

So far nothing for Newark.
Though Lancaster and all these other places have it around. Kinda ticks me off a little.
Ohio was more or less a test ground for 3G. When a lot of the 3G came out it was Nortel equipment as they had exclusive rights for verizon towers early on.

I just wish they would turn up the power in Toledo. I'm in Michigan and the damn signal dies about 200 yards from the house. Even on the Verizon map it shows where it dies and it is about spot on.

I live in NE Ohio in on the outskirts South East of the Cleveland 4G area. According to VZW map, I'm considered "extended 4G". I've owned the phone since launch and have never seen 4G in my home until this morning. It's been twelve hours now and I still have it. They must have cranked up something around Cleveland and Akron.

London ohio has 4g
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Dangit! I have mine on CDMA only and was wondering why I was stuck on 1x last night.
Where in town did you have it?

Dilpickle1 said:
Where in town did you have it?
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I'm north of Lima, Cairo area
last night, I'm hearing reports of 4g being tested 3am - 4am

obededom said:
I'm north of Lima, Cairo area
last night, I'm hearing reports of 4g being tested 3am - 4am
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I'm south of Lima.. Cridersville Area. Did you have it in cairo? Would love 4g to actually cover the whole town.

Well they must be screwing with something. I have NO data right now lol. I live just 4 miles west of Lima.

obededom said:
I'm north of Lima, Cairo area
last night, I'm hearing reports of 4g being tested 3am - 4am
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Did you actually have LTE in Cario or did you just hear about it?
My data coverage has been sporadic for the past few days North of you in Ottawa. It would be awesome if Ottawa and Cario was included in the Lima market.

yutzybrian said:
Well they must be screwing with something. I have NO data right now lol. I live just 4 miles west of Lima.
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I'm in the cridersville area and I currently have two bars of LTE.

to confirm and clarify...yes, I'm just east of Cairo and I had a strong 4G signal...for little awhile
good to see so may dudes in my backyard up in here. Peace out bros

We're not officially on until August 18th but I can tell you that pretty much the entire city of Memphis has been on since August 5th.
We'll all be lit up on August 18th though.
It's about damn time!

CanesDrew said:
We're not officially on until August 18th but I can tell you that pretty much the entire city of Memphis has been on since August 5th.
We'll all be lit up on August 18th though.
It's about damn time!
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11:55pm on Wednesday and I have two bars of LTE... again.

This is the 4th night they have been testing that I have seen dating back to July 27th. They have been more frequent in the past week. Lima is in the express lane for lte bc our area is tops in the country when it comes to vzw concenration and sales in data related products.