The LTE coverage of the United State is growing across the country and carriers. With today's announcement of the new BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 with LTE, let's look a the new LTE markets for each carrier Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile AT&T and Cricket. LTE is important for data use because its data speeds are very fast. [rss cut]

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AT&T announced today the expansion of 4G LTE coverage in 6 new metros.

4G LTE is now available in Reading, Pennsylvania, Salt Lake City area and Albuquerque New Mexico. In Puerto Rico, 4G LTE deployment will be in Guayama, San German-Cabo Rojo, and Yauco.

AT&T offers several LTE-compatible devices, including new AT&T 4G LTE smartphones and tablets, such as the iPhone 5,  Sony Xperia TL, LG Optimus G, Samsung Galaxy S III,  HTC One  X, Nokia Lumia 920, Samsung Galaxy Note II, HTC One X+, Samsung ATIV smart PC and ASUS VivoTab RT. 

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Although, Los Angeles is not officially mapped currently for LTE service, there are reports fast LTE data from Sprint customers in various parts of Los Angeles.  Sprint hinted at a total deployment date by March 2013.

According to Sprint forum members when they have CDMA/LTE selected in their settings they found LTE service in t parts of Los Angeles City and County. This is for patient may be helpful if you are trying to decide whether to buy an LTE device from Sprint in the Los Angeles area.

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AT&T has added several metros for its 4G LTE service. The new cities are Sacramento, Birmingham, Memphis,Palm Beach County, Miami-Dade, Sacramento, Wilmington, Rochester, Albany and Philadelphia.

 AT&T claims that 4G LTE offers faster speeds, new devices, faster response time with lower latency and more efficient use of spectrum.

AT&T already has sold-out preorders for the iPhone 5, first day of sale which set a sales record with iPhone 5 over the weekend, making it the fastest-selling iPhone AT&T has ever offered.

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Strategy Analytics reports that  in 2012 there will be 24 million tablets with mobile data subscriptions in the world, equal to 12.5 % of the 192 million tablets.  By the and of 2017 the will be 172 million mobile tablet subscribers.

The firm also predicts that end of 2016, tablets with active cellular data subscriptions will represent 18 percent of the total tablets.

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Most Read Top Wireless and Mobile News Stories this Week in Review:

This week has been a great week for updates, the Olympics, the Samsung Galax S III/Note, Nexus and bogus pocus focus.

Here are the top best articles at WiMo News for the week of 07/22- 07/29/2012:

The Samsung Nexus S was updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Top 10 Best Olympic Apps won gold medals from readers.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 (III) Review of Parties showed how celebrities like Ashlee Simpson use their SG S3's.

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AT&T, Sprint and Verizon wireless have expanded their coverage of their  4G LTE data network services. Bryson still covers the largest area, followed by AT&T and Sprint with very few.  Here is a list of all the new 4G LTE markets recently.

AT&T:

Miami, Florida.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Boston-area, Massachusetts.
West Palm Beach, Florida.
Baltimore (Expansion), Maryland
Great Washington D.C. Areas (Expansion).
If you are a new AT&T customer be sure to use $50 Off Coupon Link AT&T Wireless for new customers with a plan.

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Sprint has launched its 4G LTE network in 15 cities so that owners of the HTC EVO 4G LTE, Samsung Galaxy S III and  LG Viper 4G LTE will be able to use the faster network. Metro areas covered include Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio (a full list of cities follow).

Just in time for the launch of the new network, Sprint is offering the HTC EVO 4G LTE in white. Sprint has also highly discounted the smartphones that can use the new networks, we have found the best deals for it newest release the Samsung Galaxy S III.

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Verizon Wireless is running a new commercial for the Share Everything plans.  It makes it seem like it's all wonderful deal.  However, what the family is actually sharing is higher costs for data.  It is the data that is being shared not the voice minutes or the texts with smartphone plans because for each smartphon voice and text are unlimited. We calculated the recommended plans from Verizon for such a family and gave our own recommendations.

In this day and age when even preteens have to have a smartphone the most highly used feature is  data.

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Sprint announced that it will finally launch its 4G LTE network on July 15.

The 4G LTE network live metros will be Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio.  Sprint has delayed the release of the 4G LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy S III, again, however buyers may receive their orders in time in these markets. Other 4G LTE smartphones are the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and HTC EVO 4G LTE.

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PCMag.com has posted the results of its annual Fastest Mobile Networks.  The winner to be found the fastest data network nationwide is Verizon Wireless 4G LTE. AT&T and T-Mobile came in top in some areas. After publishing the results AT&T refuted the results.

Comment from WiMo News: Although Verizon Wireless is the fastest, it may become the most expensive for individual users when shared data plans start on June 28 which may or may be in time for the Droid Incredible 4G LTE (read how to keep your unlimited data plan).

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