LTE 4G Coming to Metro PCS in Las Vegas & Dallas- CU in September

Sources have confirmed the launch of LTE (4G) by MetroPCS in September with the Samsung Craft as the first LTE smartphone available.

Jaebeom Choi, vice president of systems research and development for Samsung, confirmed that a flat-rate regional carrier is will launch LTE in Las Vegas and Dallas in September, reported Dow Jones Newswire.

A MetroPCS spokesman confirmed to FierceWireless the report, and also disclsoed that Ericsson is supplying the LTE infrastructure Dallas.

The first Metro PCS LTE phone will be the Samsung Craft. Then the MetroPCS rep reported that the LTE deployment will come later this year.

Previously MetroPCS CEO Roger Linquist said that in the future, they will migrate CDMA voice customers to VoIP technology working over LTE. They are also launching LTE service on their AWS spectrum.

Earlier this week, WMN showed "Small Craft Warnings," with the Samsung Craft (Samsung SCH-r900 ) confirmed to set sail on the MetroPCS waves. The Samsung Craft is a landscape QWERTY slider with a 3.2 megapixel camera, a Qualcomm chipset, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Analysts and bloggers are speculating that if MetroPCS beats the major carriers to LTE with their low priced prepaid everything plans, it may lower future pricing of super high-speed data.