AT&T LTE live in Lexington, KY

anish3232 · Dec 19, 2012, 07:56 PM

LTE is live in Lexington, KY, seems like it went live this afternoon. Lexington was never mentioned in any press releases etc.

KentuckyHouse · Dec 20, 2012, 08:29 AM

Whoo! Woke up this morning to find the LTE indicator showing on my S3. What a great feeling to wake up to! Finally!

TSKY74 · Dec 20, 2012, 02:36 PM

Pleasant surprise to see this.

adhudson · Dec 21, 2012, 12:32 AM

It's live in Bowling Green too!

iMas70 · Dec 21, 2012, 12:51 AM

I noticed it in the Westport, Fall River, Somerset area of MA today. I looked at my phone and thought I was seeing things. Much faster than 4G!!! Of course it cut off 3-4 miles from my house! Hopefully it expands more soon!

AppleBoyFreak · Dec 21, 2012, 03:00 AM

Elizabethtown is still running on just "4G" which is actually just their HSPA+. I don't understand why we don't have LTE yet considering almost everyone here has an iPhone on AT&T.

TSKY74 · Dec 21, 2012, 09:02 PM

Good to see LTE in Lex, but speeds aren't so impressive. Hit 7.26Mbps (4G hit 4.98Mbps) just now and the highest I've hit was about 23Mbps.

KentuckyHouse · Dec 21, 2012, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TSKY74

Good to see LTE in Lex, but speeds aren't so impressive. Hit 7.26Mbps (4G hit 4.98Mbps) just now and the highest I've hit was about 23Mbps.

I have to agree with this. While it's definitely faster than "4G", it's not nearly as fast as I thought it would be. I'm seeing roughly what you said...around 5-8 Mbps (whereas I'm usually around 3-5 Mbps on 4G). I chalk it up to more LTE phones being out there now (iPhone 5, S3's, Atrix HD's, etc). Maybe we'll see the speeds pick up eventually. But I've been underwhelmed so far.

KentuckyHouse · Dec 28, 2012, 08:52 PM

Update on this.

I talked to a guy at the AT&T store on Richmond Rd and we were talking about the LTE now being live. He brought up, without my prompting, that I may notice the speeds aren't outrageously fast and I said I had noticed that. He said its because the local towers aren't controlled by AT&T (whereas they are in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Nashville), so there are more hoops to jump through and the speeds are part of these hoops. So our LTE here is "dumbed down" next to these other markets. Kinda sucks, and take it with a grain of salt, but that's why our speeds aren't as fast as the other close-by markets.

TSKY74 · Dec 28, 2012, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by KentuckyHouse

Update on this.

I talked to a guy at the AT&T store on Richmond Rd and we were talking about the LTE now being live. He brought up, without my prompting, that I may notice the speeds aren't outrageously fast and I said I had noticed that. He said its because the local towers aren't controlled by AT&T (whereas they are in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Nashville), so there are more hoops to jump through and the speeds are part of these hoops. So our LTE here is "dumbed down" next to these other markets. Kinda sucks, and take it with a grain of salt, but that's why our speeds aren't as fast as the other close-by markets.

If ours are slow, Nashville wasn't much faster. Hit just about 20Mbps yesterday.

Dec 19, 2012, 07:56 PM	#1
anish3232 macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Nashville, TN	AT&T LTE live in Lexington, KY LTE is live in Lexington, KY, seems like it went live this afternoon. Lexington was never mentioned in any press releases etc.
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Dec 21, 2012, 12:51 AM	#5
iMas70 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2012	I noticed it in the Westport, Fall River, Somerset area of MA today. I looked at my phone and thought I was seeing things. Much faster than 4G!!! Of course it cut off 3-4 miles from my house! Hopefully it expands more soon! __________________ iPhone 5 (32GB), iPad 4 (32GB), Apple TV, 2.3 GHz i7 Mac Mini - 16 MB RAM! Apple... it's not just a brand... it's a lifestyle!
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Dec 21, 2012, 03:00 AM	#6
AppleBoyFreak macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Kentucky	Elizabethtown is still running on just "4G" which is actually just their HSPA+. I don't understand why we don't have LTE yet considering almost everyone here has an iPhone on AT&T. __________________ The 16 year old Apple fanboy! Base 2012 15" MacBook Pro, 16GB iPad 1st Gen, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and Apple TV. And to think it all began with a 2nd Gen iPod Nano
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Dec 20, 2012, 02:36 PM	#3
TSKY74 macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2012	Pleasant surprise to see this.
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Dec 21, 2012, 09:02 PM	#7
TSKY74 macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2012	Good to see LTE in Lex, but speeds aren't so impressive. Hit 7.26Mbps (4G hit 4.98Mbps) just now and the highest I've hit was about 23Mbps.
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Dec 28, 2012, 08:52 PM	#9
KentuckyHouse macrumors 68000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Lexington, KY.	Update on this. I talked to a guy at the AT&T store on Richmond Rd and we were talking about the LTE now being live. He brought up, without my prompting, that I may notice the speeds aren't outrageously fast and I said I had noticed that. He said its because the local towers aren't controlled by AT&T (whereas they are in Cincinnati, Louisville, and Nashville), so there are more hoops to jump through and the speeds are part of these hoops. So our LTE here is "dumbed down" next to these other markets. Kinda sucks, and take it with a grain of salt, but that's why our speeds aren't as fast as the other close-by markets. __________________ iPhone 3GS>iPhone 4S>Samsung Galaxy SII>Samsung Galaxy Nexus>HTC One X>Samsung Galaxy SIII>Motorola Atrix HD>HTC One X+>iPhone 5 (own)>Lumia 920>Galaxy Note II (own)>LG Optimus G (own)>HTC One (own)
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