SAN FRANCISCO - Verizon Wireless today announced the full list of the carrier's 4G LTE launch markets in a press release issued at the CTIA Wireless trade show.
High-speed, low-latency 4G LTE will initially be available in up to 70 percent of these metro areas, Verizon president Lowell McAdam said in a keynote at the show. The company will fill out the metro areas as time goes on, and will ultimately cover Verizon's entire existing 3G footprint by 2013.
LTE will first come as USB modems for PCs and Macs, offering speeds from 5-12 megabits down and 2-5 megabits up. But phones and tablets will be introduced in January at the CES trade show, McAdam said.
Here's who's getting LTE first.
Akron, Ohio; Athens, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Houston, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota; Nashville, Tennessee; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York, New York; Oakland, California; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Phoenix, Arizona; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rochester, New York; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; San Jose, California; Seattle/Tacoma, Washington; St. Louis, Missouri; Tampa, Florida; Washington, D.C.; West Lafayette, Indiana; and West Palm Beach, Florida.
If you read all that you may be wondering: "West Lafayette, Indiana?" Verizon is doing a project with Purdue University on how to better use wireless technologies in education, and that's where the university is based.
Verizon is also building out LTE in more than 60 airports. For that very long list, check out the official press release on Verizon's Web site.