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4G in a non-4G city!

I live in Milwaukee, WI and even though I knew the city was not due to get 4G until summer, here I am surfing and downloading at insane speed!
I know the speed test app by speakeasy was giving skewed results but I've been testing using the browser version. I have been hitting around 13Mbits/sec download but only 1Mbit/sec upload.....so maybe it's more like 3.5G. (and yes, it days the network connection type is the phones settings is LTE, and the 4G symbols shows in the notifications bar)
Still, I am super happy with even this and I really hope it continues to work.
If anyone else has been seeing this (even in other cities) it would be interesting to hear about...and for further discussion, might anyone know what the cause of this "miracle" could be?
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most likely there are towers active in your city,and that city wide rollout is planned for summer. they may be in the testing phases too with a limited number of towers turned on. Portland is not listed as having 4g, but anybody in the north west portion of the city are getting it.. There are 2 towers active over there

I'm in a far, Northwest suburb of Chicago, Il. and the 4G LTE showed about twice.

Psosmith82: Yeah I was thinking it might be something like that... since I was rolling through other parts of the city today and noticed it was 3G only.
I'm really just hopping I don't 'lose' LTE connectivity for any reason (even thought I know it is not technically rolled out)

Good to know. I'll be down there in a few weeks for the Miller Park opener. Hopefully I can get 4g's when tailgating.

Hey, I live in Orlando and notice city above me have LTE and the map shows otherwise. So it might be beta testing some new towers which is great. Need to test this baby in a building and we should be superb. Love the phone and the network.

This is similar to the Sprint WiMax rollout in Los Angeles when I test drove an EVO 4G for a month last summer (June IIRC).
Sprint was just finishing up the tower installs in the downtown area and you'd see many reports of people getting WiMax signals for a half day or two and then nothing. Clearly what's going on in your case; enjoy the pleasant surprise!

where (about) in the city are you? I'm very close to state fair park and haven't seen 4g pop up even once yet.
though I haven't ventured towards downtown in the past week or so.

4g greenville, sc

Today is the first day I have gotten 4g in Greenville, sc anyone elses pop up with it today
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where in greenville
I live near berea

it lasted for a matter of 10 minutes, and then went off again.

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it lasted for a matter of 10 minutes, and then went off again.
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That means verizon is testing 4g in ur area and it should be live soon

Dang it I missed it!!
They have turned it on once before for a few min about a month so maybe we are getting close to having the switch flipped on in gville/sptbg area! I hate that I missed it this time!

I am near downtown greenville and it came on for about a few min and went out got a chance to do a speed test I was getting 6 to 10mbps down was not getting upload
Also I been noticing 3g going down to 1x and back up to 3g for the past week anyone else had this happen?
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oooooh. Maybe if Greenville is close then Charleston is right there with them. I should start turning on 4g to see if it works

I thought you meant Greenville, NC... damn.

Coming soon to a greenville / spartanburg place near you! YES!

I read an article on google that stated verizon's 4g will hit surrounding areas when greenville, sc receives 4g, including clemson university. With that being said, i have noticed an increase in 3g/1x fluctuations this and last week as well.

I don't see why they didn't include Anderson in the list I saw. I saw mauldiin simpsonville easley fountain inn and some more suburbs in greenville. Heck if they added Anderson they would have most of the upstate market. Tonight I been noticing a lot of 3G drops outs
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It Looks like the Greenville/Spartanburg area is getting 4G on the 16th of June Verizon Wireless Twitted it along with 21 new market areas!

Are you sure Greenville/Spartanburg was on the list?? I didn't see it on Android Central's list for the 16th a couple days ago.
I hope, I hope you're right!!

Your Right!! I hadn't seen the latest!! Thanks for making my day!! HAHAHA

I'm in Travelers Rest/Furman area, wonder if the 4G will stretch to me? i'm only 15 min to downtown.

I live in Easley and I really hope it reaches out there because I will get rid of my DSL through AT&T.

Come on Boiling Springs!!
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It's also on verizon wireless news Center http://news.vzw.com/news/2011/05/pr2011-05-20g.html
Also these surrounding areas i would picture Travelers Rest and Easley will be in there since Central SC which is WAY smaller than Easley is also gonna be Covered because these towns are part of the Greenville Metro statistical area (aka Suburbs) but here is what they posted on thier News Center
The deployment of Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE in Greenville-Spartanburg also provides LTE coverage throughout the surrounding areas of Clemson, Simpsonville, Fountain Inn, Greer, Taylors, Inman, Central, Liberty (Which i will think this will include Easley since is along HWY 123 and in Pickens County just adding my guessing in), Mauldin, Wellford, Inman, Berea, Lyman, Startex, Roebuck, and White Stone.
With all these Cities and surroundings that Pretty much covers the Whole Upstate at least around the I-85 Corridor of South Carolina just needs to get to Gaffney and Anderson area's this is like a huge LTE cut on

I was connected to 4g for a few hours early this morning in Mauldin before it went back off.

zolazar - i live in easley too. small world.

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 LTE in Austin, TX

I just noticed I'm now getting 4g/LTE in Austin, TX on my TBolt downtown. We haven't been in any of the notices for getting 4G yet. Anyone seeing this?

I havent had any luck at my place on 620/2222. I drive around town for my job in the morning. I will be all over downtown. I will see what happens

Kroaker said:
I just noticed I'm now getting 4g/LTE in Austin, TX on my TBolt downtown. We haven't been in any of the notices for getting 4G yet. Anyone seeing this?
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Hmm. I switched my network over to LTE only and only get red bars.
In fact, the only time I don't get red bars when LTE is listed is when I select CDMA+LTE/EvDo.
Then again, I'm south of Austin in Buda at the moment. I'll check in north Austin tomorrow when I'm at work (183 & Oak Knoll)

Hm. My prior reply hasn't shown up yet. Odd.
Anyway, I found information regarding 4g in Austin:
Look at news..vzw..com/news/2011/08/pr2011-08-22o.html (remove the double periods. I can't post links yet, but this is legit info)

YAY!
Odd that Austin was never mentioned in any of the earlier roadmaps yet its one of the most techie cities in the country. At the moment im at 2222 and MOPAC and no 4G, but at least this is good news.

I had no luck today. I was in Lakeway, CP, Downtown, 6th street, south austin.

wow, i always just assumed you guys had it. Temple/Killeen has had 4G for MONTHS.

Schedonnardus said:
wow, i always just assumed you guys had it. Temple/Killeen has had 4G for MONTHS.
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I thought we would have gotten it sooner too. O well at least we are getting it soon.

Awesome man, I live in Boston and am going to be moving to Austin and I was wondering when it was going to move in!! Thanks for the update!!

It seems to have gone live early, im getting 4G right now in west austin and got it all the way during my commute (SE to NW).

T-Mobile LTE Live in Pittsburgh as of 6-14-2013

Hi,
I live in Pittsburgh PA. It's kind of funny because about 3 days ago I called T-Mobile and asked the Rep when LTE would go live in Pittsburgh PA, and he said probably by September. Well yesterday Morning I got in my car to go to work like I do every morning, I turned on my Sirius app and put on Stern Like I always do and noticed that instead of the normal 4G icon it had the LTE.!!!! This is a day later and it's still on. I'm using an Iphone 5 from T-Mobile..

I am thinking about switching to t mobile. Can anyone else give me some numbers on how their LTE speeds are doing. I live in Carnegie if that helps.

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I am thinking about switching to t mobile. Can anyone else give me some numbers on how their LTE speeds are doing. I live in Carnegie if that helps.
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Hey, same here...also in Carnegie. I'm currently with Sprint and they're finally getting LTE running in PGH..I've started getting it here and there. But I'm really interested in switching to t mobile, cheaper and more options phone wise with no contracts..let me know if you hear anything.

I've been in Greentree , Bridgvelle, I know that's not quite Carnegie but I haven't been in that area. In those 2 areas I get full LTE with around 22 - 26 MPS download speeds on my Iphone 5. I can only imagine it's way faster on an S4. If I happen to roll through Carnegie for some odd reason I'll do a speedtest and post it for ya.

I might give T mobile a shot when I am up for a new phone. I was just curious about how well their 4G was in the area.