AT&T's first 4G LTE smartphone due by year-end

By on Aug 10, 2011 at 10:24 PM
mobile August 10, 2011


AT&T senior vice president of mobility and consumer markets Pete Ritcher took the stage during the Oppenheimer Technology and Communications Conference on Wednesday, where he confirmed that AT&T will launch its first 4G LTE smartphone by the end of this year. Ritcher reaffirmed AT&T’s intention to deploy its LTE network in 15 markets covering 70 million people by the end of 2011, and it hopes to continue its roll-out on a market-by-market basis, Fierce Wireless reported. AT&T will initially only offer laptop cards alongside the new LTE network, and AT&T is expected to launch 4G LTE in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio this summer. “We are the only carrier with LTE and HSPA+,” Ritcher said. “When you don’t have LTE you will fall back to faster speeds than our competitors,” he added, noting that Verizon’s 4G customers fall back to the slower EV-DO network when LTE is not available.

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  • http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/ BoyRetardedReport

    Wait… people still use AT&T?

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, just shy of 99 million people do. You probably have bumped into a few of them on your commute from under your bridge, to your mothers basement 

      • Anonymous

        Lmao

      • Tim242

        Actually, at&t has 86 million wireless customers, 95 total connections (counting landline and ereaders)

      • Joe Butler

        You have to be pretty stupid to use AT&T at this point.  Where’s the selling point.  Paying nearly identical pricing as Verizon while getting 1/5 the 3G coverage, Having to wait until the end of 2011 just to get 1/8th the LTE Coverage, Statistically proven more unreliable with more dropped calls, and the lowest customer service ratings in the industry.  Now that their stranglehold on the iPhone is done, there is only one reason to justify having AT&T and that’s if you are a person that travels internationally.  Their Global plans are much cheaper than Verizons otherwise it’s just tens of millions of uneducated customers that have them just to have them.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FHSNRLSY722EA2H2SSWZPHW6AE Gilbert Estes

      I paid $21.87 for an iPad 2 32-GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it al from, http://to.ly/aUHr

  • Yo momma

    “When you don’t have LTE you will fall back to faster speeds than our competitors,” he added, noting that Verizon’s 4G customers fall back to the slower EV-DO network when LTE is not available.

    When you’re lucky enough to get a signal in our 3G areas.

    • Anonymous

      So true.  I was traveling this past week and looked at all the places I had decent data coverage on Verizon.  I contrasted that with my last trip thru those same places on AT&T and had no data.  Verizon’s 3G might be slower than AT&T’s, but I’ll take reliable and have it ACTUALLY WORK rather than being theoretically faster with horrible coverage.

      I knew it wasn’t my phone (a Captivate) as my phone worked much better in Europe than it ever did here in the US.

  • Powerfulmonk

    Unsubscribe.

  • Anonymous

    Well I suppose people can stop asking if the next iphone is gonna be LTE

    • Lechero

      they won’t, you forget people are stupid.

  • IPwn

    I would rather fall back to EVDO and have solid 3G everywhere but Verizon said their 4G was gonna match their 3G footprint by the end of 2013 so really no argument there.

  • http://profiles.google.com/s.awokoya11 Sodiq Awokoya

    well this solidifies that att won’t be getting a Nexus Prime that might run on LTE, in the coming months when Ice cream is debut in “october” 

    • Anonymous

      Nexus Prime announced Oct. 21, released November 15, hence Late 2011. (All dates theoretical).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S7ZYZUI56J7G64LSVKWSKY7VEI Keith Wood

    I just paid $22.85 for an iPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

  • Anonymous

    AT&T doesn’t even have 3G on point…their services absolutely suck…Verizon will win this battle

  • http://twitter.com/ggore Glenn Gore

    5 cities at launch and 15 this year, wow, big woo.    And the 700 mhz spectrum was hailed as being able to reach vast distances when compared to previous CDMA and GSM technologies.  A 20 mile radius of coverage from a tower instead of one mile.   But when you look at any carrier’s 4G coverage maps, the coverage barely goes beyond the city limits, if there is any at all in your city.    I drive outside the city for work and it would be nice to be able to have speedy service at the jobsite but right now I drop 3G the minute I leave the city and am lucky to have service at all at the wind farm site.   

  • Corymcnutt

    This will be great for the maybe FIVE cities at launch…seems a little premature?

    • http://www.facebook.com/lallen1123 Lewis Allen III

      Well isn’t that what Verizon did also? The only difference is they rapidly expanded their 4G LTE coverage. Hopefully AT&T follows suit. I’m dying for AT&T’s LTE in New York and Allentown.

      • maxrebo

        “Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network is initially launching in 38 major metropolitan areas and in more than 60 commercial airports coast to coast – at both airports within the launch areas plus airports in other key cities.”

        A few more than 5 cities/markets at launch … 38 markets plus 60 airports (assuming many of these airports were within many of these 38 markets). And in 7 months time it has expanded to over 100 markets now. Pretty darn rapid!

  • Grungee

    This just in. Preorder our new LTE phone now and you’ll get to try our 5g LTE beta in 2015 for free when we roll that out. We’ll email you the keycode.

  • Scotty

    Yes sure they will give you an LTE phone just like I have a 4G phone now. But with 3G speeds. This is f***ing ridiculous

  • Chriseng13

    If the merger goes through then will tmobile users also get lte?

  • http://www.mobile-broadband-reviews.com/ Mobilebroadbandreviews

    AT&T needs to be careful. Verizon completely owned them with “There’s a Map For That” ad campaign not too long ago. They really don’t need to get into the coverage war battle with Verizon again.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MMW4IXYRVZA7MKBEHGMNYS7ZDQ Josephine Allison

      I just paid $24,97 for an iPad2 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $37,74 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $71,32 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, MetaCent.com

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