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Carrier AT&T LTE in Amarillo, TX?

the1payday

the1payday

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Jun 19, 2007
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Amarillo, TX
I've been trying to figure out from AT&T (a worthless exercise so far) when they will activate LTE in my area. Verizon has their LTE service here and I'm just on the edge about to switch. I know there are some forum members here that work for AT&T and sometimes have access to this information. If anyone sees this post that is one of those said individuals, I would appreciate it so much if they could tell me when Amarillo TX will have LTE on AT&T. Thanks!
 
the1payday said:
I've been trying to figure out from AT&T (a worthless exercise so far) when they will activate LTE in my area. Verizon has their LTE service here and I'm just on the edge about to switch. I know there are some forum members here that work for AT&T and sometimes have access to this information. If anyone sees this post that is one of those said individuals, I would appreciate it so much if they could tell me when Amarillo TX will have LTE on AT&T. Thanks!
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I don't work for AT&T but I would estimate by the end of the year you should see it.

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=23237&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=35257
 
Yea I'm aware of that page, I monitor it frequently. With my work, I have to sometimes upload/download pretty large files to a Dropbox type server. My contract is up and if I could know FOR SURE when LTE is coming, I could possibly hold off switching. If its not going to be until like October though or later, I can't really wait that long.
 
I would doubt anyone just working for AT&T would know unless you're higher up in the company (I could be wrong).
 
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There are various users on this board who I guess do work high enough to know. They've responded before in other topics regarding other cities LTE status and have given tentative launch windows that they have the ability to look up in their systems.
 
Or employees don't want to say NO so they keep saying "is coming!"

Amarillo, how big is the town. 1 tower and u guys are set right? :D
 
Mrbobb said:
Or employees don't want to say NO so they keep saying "is coming!"

Amarillo, how big is the town. 1 tower and u guys are set right? :D
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It's not super big, obviously. 200,000 population. It's annoying though because AT&T has activated LTE in a TON of small towns in Texas all over the place (like 5000 population small) and they're towns that aren't extensions of a big metro area or anything of the sort. Real annoying.
 
They are waiting for 3G to cover the panhandle because lte can only fall back onto 3G service, not edge. There are only a couple towers left up north I believe until they're done so I'd guess in the next 3 months they can turn it up
 
http://m.amarillo.com/blog-post/karen-smith-welch/2013-08-21/amarillo-att-mobile-network-pick-speed

Here is a little info I found hope it helps
 
Jkingram said:
http://m.amarillo.com/blog-post/karen-smith-welch/2013-08-21/amarillo-att-mobile-network-pick-speed

Here is a little info I found hope it helps
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Yea I saw that, but thanks! I've actually got a friend working for AT&T who called yesterday and said it should be live sometime in the next 2-3 days!
 
AT&T posts PRs every Tuesday or Wednesday when new LTE areas are live. Best to keep checking them.
 
Well LTE came on about an hour ago....the speeds are aweful. Speed test shows 1.2 Mbps download speed.... :( Is there a transition period for this thing speeding up soon after rolling out, or......?
 
I tested it last night and got 18 down and 6 up so I'd imagine it'll pick up again soon

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/631075502
 
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