Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility and
Consumer Markets, will be speaking
at AT&T's Developer Summit at the 2011
International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. AT&T will launch 20 4G smartphones/devices by the end of the year and support Android with 12 smartphone models.
AT&T expects to offer two
4G smartphones in the first quarter, which will join its two existing
4G-compatible laptop cards. The new 4G smartphones all have 4-inch touchscreens or bigger.
The 4G AT&T website shows these new Android smartphones, the 4.3-inch HTC Inspire, Motorola Atrix 4G (dual core 4-inch) and 4.5-inch Samsung Infuse. AT&T also will offer the USBConnect Shockwave 4G modem.
AT&T plans
to offer five to seven 4G smartphone/devices in its lineup in the first half of
2011. AT&T announced plans to accelerate its LTE network build, to be
largely complete by year-end 2013; AT&T plans to begin its launch of
LTE service in mid 2011.
"AT&T is the only U.S. company committed to both HSPA+ and LTE
technologies," said de la Vega. "Today our customers are benefitting as
we repeatedly increase speeds on our mobile broadband network. As we
accelerate our LTE network build, our customers will have blazing fast
LTE speeds and when they go off LTE, they will still have faster mobile
broadband speeds with HSPA+ -- something our competitors will not be
able to match."
He claimed that AT&T has the nation's fastest mobile
broadband network today, according to independent expert testing, and
its network roadmap will distinguish AT&T as the industry moves
towards 4G/LTE technology over the next several years.