Since I was in Manhattan for the day, I figured I would see what the big fuss was about LTE. After experiencing faster-than-cable broadband speeds in the middle of the Upper West Side, I bemoaned my purchase of the AT&T iPad instead of the Verizon flavor, knowing their LTE deployment on Long Island was far inferior (i.e., nonexistent).
[I stuck with AT&T for my iPhone mostly because of GSM's ability to talk and surf at the same time. Why I would use that reasoning for the iPad is anyone's guessalthough I suppose I tried to rationalize keeping two iDevices on the same account for convenience and, in theory, savings. (yeah right)]
Since I knew AT&T's LTE coverage quit around the QueensNassau border, I figured I'd keep the iPad on a non-sleeping app while driving past it on the LIE, just to see where it might end exactly. Passing from Flushing, to Bayside, to Douglaston, the LTE indicator stayed on as expected. But when it remained on while whizzing by Lake Success, Great Neck, Manhasset, I started getting suspicious. When it didn't budge driving through Searingtown, Carle Place, Garden City, Hempstead, I started getting palpitations. The signal lost a bar here and there while traveling down Levittown, East Meadow, Freeport, but "LTE" stuck around, incredibly, all the way down to Merrick.
After scouring the Internet for any confirmation, I got here, with messages barely a day or two old. All I can say as a veteran AT&T customer is that for once, I'm speechless.