Tmo has 4g LTE in my area too and they have 3 towers surrounding me in a range from a mile to 3 miles. The reason i am EVEN CONSIDERING going back to sprint is because from what i have seen of their 4g LTE is that it is CRAZY fast.... ive seen many videos and real life where sprint has whopped up on Verizon and ATT i have not used Tmo 4g LTE yet but i have also seen that it is very fast because of the low congestion and higher bandwidth. but like you said Softbank is very good company and i almost want to get on sprint so i can experience the rollout with softbank backing them,,,,,,,,, mmmm decisions decisions...