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There has been a lot of talk about the LTE phones that Sprint has and will be releasing this year, but not much about any Broadband cards for LTE. I would assume they're coming but does anyone have any additional information about what's in the pipe? Will the first ones have 800MHz support or will that come later? I know they're not as sexy as the new phones, but for some of us they're our only link to the outside world.

I looked on the NV explained sticky and didn't see it. I'm definitely curious to know more about the issue. Yeah, same questions here. Would love to know more about the issue and fixes. Anyone?

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Yep, I heard this on the radio in the car on the way home this afternoon. A similar article on CNN says Sprint already charges $36 for the same thing, but I don't recall a similar fee when I upgraded two years ago. Maybe this is new? An "activation fee"? Edit: Oops. Sorry for the double post.... Lost my wireless connection for a minute and didn't think I hit submit before it came back. Oh well.

Yep, I heard this on the radio in the car on the way home this afternoon. Let's hope Sprint doesn't follow suit.

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I'm in the same boat Josh, my phone company and the local cable company will NOT bring high speed to us and the many homes around us. I have requested cable once or twice a year since I moved here four years ago and, obviously, they still say the same thing that there aren't enough houses per mile. My house is about 1.5 miles from where cable is today and there are about 40 homes in that distance but Time Warner won't drop lines without 90 homes per mile. CenturyLink has blanketed the entire neighboring county to ours according to my neighbor who works for them because they had the lowest broadband penetration rates in the state. Since the economy has slowed, so has CenturyLink's expansion to more rural areas. Sprint Mobile BroadBand is my only viable solution at this point, since Verizon and AT&T don't have unlimited plans. I work from home for a large computer company and use a lot of data every month. It's not fast enough to stream movies or music (we tried Netflix briefly but it just wouldn't work), but for most of what I do from home it's acceptable. Later in the day and parts of the evening it's much slower which is when others are getting home from work. The 4G LTE and capacity upgrades can't come soon enough for people like me who have no other viable options.

I don't know much about Verizon's markets as compared to Sprint's, but from what I've seen in Robert's maps vs Verizon coverage in this area the Sprint Raleigh/Durham market covers a much wider area. For instance, I live just north of Raleigh and would not be able to get Verizon 4G LTE yet. But if the Sprint Raleigh/Durham market map holds then I would be covered by Sprint. I don't know what Verizon would call these more rural market areas, or if it would just be an expansion of an existing market.

Thanks Robert, and everyone, for the helpful info. Glad to hear that Raleigh/Durham made the second round list. One other question on the map image that's in the announcement from today, is the actual map itself is available? I'd like to be able to click around and find where some cell sites are. I've used Open Signal on my android phone to try to find which tower I'm connecting to but when I drove past where it's telling me the tower is I don't find a tower. I see a few towers in the area, a few miles away, but I don't know which is Sprint versus Verizon, AT&T, etc. And those are a bit south of where it's telling me I'm connected.

That is good news, but does that mean it will cover all of the map that I see on this Site for the Raleigh/Durham market or something closer to their original Wi-Max footprint? That was the main point of my original question, since I'm just outside of their current "4G" area. I'm in Franklin County, about 12 miles north of Wake Forest. Unfortunately, I can't get DSL or Cable where I am. I'm only 5 miles from the C.O. downtown (which is at the very edge for DSL) but our phone lines run past our street and then back so we're actually even further away from a DSL point of view. And cable, although only about 1.5 miles away, has no interest coming up the nearest main road because there aren't enough houses. My 3G speeds are pretty slow (250-300k up, 30-50k down) during the best times of day but seem to just tank around 5-6pm every day. But that's something I need to post on the 3G forum and start calling Sprint to bug them about. Thanks everyone for the help and replies.

Does anyone know, when Sprint rolls out LTE to a Market (or an area) will they cover the entire market? For example, the maps that I see in the Gallery show the Raleigh/Durham area of NC cover a wide range of counties including the County I live in. However, when Sprint rolled out WiMax they stopped a few miles south of my house, as do Verizon and AT&T currently with their LTE deployments. With no DSL or Cable available to my home, I'm stuck with Sprint 3G for now and eagerly awaiting some form of upgrade. AT&T and Verizon won't be an option since I work from home and routinely use 18-21GB of data a month on the slow 3G network I have now. Even though I haven't seen Raleigh/Durham on the list yet, I'm hoping once they do it covers all of the Counties in the map.