AT&T's first 4G LTE devices landing August 21st

By on Aug 16, 2011 at 8:22 PM
mobile August 16, 2011

AT&T announced on Tuesday that its first 4G LTE devices, including the USBConnect Momentum 4G and the Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G, will be available in-store and online later this month. The USBConnect Momentum 4G and Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G will launch on August 21st for $49.99 and $69.99, respectively, each with a new two-year agreement and after a $50 mail-in rebate. AT&T’s existing USBConnect Adrenaline modem will receive a software update on August 26th that will add support for the carrier’s 4G LTE network. AT&T will charge $50 per month for a 5GB data plan on its LTE network and any additional data past the 5GB cap will cost $10 per gigabyte. AT&T’s LTE network will first launch in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio this summer, and will eventually expand to at least 15 markets later this year.

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  • BernieMadoff

    Don’t forget they have HSPA+/HSPA fallback for a smoother transition when leaving at LTE are. Better than the abrupt jarring I get with Verizon’s LTE fallback to EVDO……..unspeakable whiplash, and a 2 minute wait to reconnect. 

    • Anonymous

      You mean the HSPA+/HSPA that hardly works? Ya that’s a great back up plan. Perfect

      • BernieMadoff

        def works for me. runs my laptop and netflix in manhattan. 

      • Anonymous

        Ya because Verizon’s 3G is just fucking awesome. Ha

      • Joe Butler

        You’re right Macboy.  It’s much better to have a 3G signal you can’t get because their coverage area is garbage, but reads as being faster on paper.

    • IPwn

      Not to mention verizon will cover their existing 3G map with LTE by 2013. Fallbacks will be minimal. HSPA+ barely works and isn’t even in that many markete😓

      • BernieMadoff

        thats 2 years from now. Who knows what delays may come forth. 

      • Joe Butler

        They’ve already got 80+ LTE Markets open right now while AT&T has yet to launch their first 5.  If you can consistently keep a 4G LTE signal which Verizon is aggressively expanding to make that a possibility fairly soon, it won’t matter what 3G network you have to fall back on.  And AT&T’s 3G coverage is scarce anyway, chances are you’d be falling back to edge lol

      • IPwn

        Not to mention Bernie verizon is ahead of schedule with 4G deployment. I wouldn’t expect an AT&T customer to know since they don’t invest as much money on their network as verizon

    • Joe Butler

      Don’t forget.  They are still looking to have 15 LTE Markets hopefully by the end of the year, when Verizon will already have 115+ LTE Markets open.  Again like in their 3G deployment, AT&T is once again ceding a massive coverage advantage to Verizon.  Shame they didn’t cough up more money into their infrastructure to keep up.  AT&T’s own CEO publicly admitted they are 3 years behind Verizons 4G LTE deployment.

  • Joe12304

    Only a year behind Verizon.

    • deezenutz

      At least they are doing it right!

      • IPwn

        How so? Verizon is deploying LTE is more markets more rapidly. Second LTE will cover their entire 3G footprint by 2013 which is 5x greater than AT&T.

      • Gcombs

        By the time AT&T catches up with Verizons LTE coverage Verizon will be working on upgrading to LTE Advance.

      • Joe Butler

        AT&T’s LTE deployment is no different than Verizons other than the fact that they are doing it at one twentieth the pace.  AT&T’s own CEO publicly announced the company is still 3 years away from being able to compare with Verizons. 

  • MeNoLikeyATT

    “ AT&T’s LTE network will first launch in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio this summer, and will eventually expand to at least 15 markets later this year.”

    Verizon 4G LTE is currently available in over 100 markets, 80 airports and will be in 175 markets by year end. Have fun playing catchup T!  Just a tad bit late.

    • Anonymous

      Ya your right. It’s to late AT&T don’t bother doing it at all right. Moron. You’re the same idiot that says that says apple is late to the game with better notifications and shit right? I swear some people should just stfu.

      • Joe Butler

        hahaha Macboy you are silly.  How can you throw away Menos claims.  They are fact.  Verizon already has 20 times the LTE Markets operational and running phones on them than AT&T will soon launch.  They have a proven by simple math 100 is more than 5.  Also the Apple stuff is right too.  I know you’re obviously an Apple enthusiast but it is fact that Apple has consistently been the last ones to add a specific feature into their phones.  The notification system is a prime example.  Androids been doing it since 2008.  You can love Apple as much as you want but again the timeline doesn’t lie.  Throw the camera flash, multitasking, the ability to pick your own wallpaper lol, and voice dialing into that same boat just to name a few.

  • SKINNI

    It just seems to me that these laptop broadband devices are pretty much obsolete with all smartphones now having hotspot capability. I just cant see these things selling in large numbers anymore so to make one the initial device is no big deal

  • Anonymous

    how are you going to say your going to 4G when 3G is a complete pile of shit?

    • BernieMadoff

      Everyone’s doing it. Come on, just try it :)

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