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iconoclasminaction

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  1. Here's a 4G update for Southeast Wisconsin: 2 days ago, at about 4am this past Sunday, while I was relaxing at my parents house in Beaver Dam, WI (70 miles northwest of Milwaukee and about halfway [35-minutes] between Madison & Fond du Lac along hwy 151) I picked up my phone and noticed that, according to the icon in my status bar, what has been 3G exclusively since I bought my S4 and switched to Sprint a couple weeks ago is now 4G. Perhaps they're moving south from the Fond du Lac area...? As far as I can tell, most of Beaver Dam is covered, but I expect that there must be more towers waiting to be activated because I'm only getting 8-10mbits/sec during speed tests. I gotta say, I'm really happy to see this update, because I discovered this website & thread not long after I got my S4 and switched FROM Verizon TO Sprint, and everyone saying on here how long Sprint has promised them 4G with no results made me really consider taking my phone back. That, and people were complaining about how slow 3G was, but when I did a speed test and got 2mbits with 3G and my network type was such as to suggest that 4G was coming soon (forgot the network name, people had mentioned if it said this in your network information on your phone that Sprint had done an update to prepare for the switch to 4G) I decided to remain optimistic and play the waiting game. Didn't even have to wait that long! I only swapped to Sprint so I could have an unlimited data plan - I had until then had unlimited data with Verizon as I was grandfathered in, but my contract had just ended and I was tired of paying $110 or more a month when I couldn't even keep unlimited data. So Sprint saves me money and lets me keep an unlimited plan, but if I had to stick with 3G it almost wasn't worth it. Sucks that some of you have been Sprint customers for so long and promised 4G for so long, but it looks like it's finally starting to change. However, I've lived in MIlwaukee for 8 years and I'm just out of town for this summer for a couple months, so hopefully when I get back to town a little later this year the 4G network has expanded. Does anyone know if Sprint is going to have an LTE network? Is their 4G assumed to be LTE, or is basic 4G all we can expect. Either way, the 8-10mbits/sec I'm getting on 4G now is far better than <2mbits/sec I get on the best days with 3G, but I'm nevertheless curious about the LTE potential. Any ideas?
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