T-Mobile to Upgrade 2G Network to 4G LTE by 2015

T-Mobile plans to upgrade the rest of its existing 2G/EDGE markets to 4G LTE by next year, the company announced on Thursday.

Just less than one year after introducing LTE to its network, T-Mobile said it now reaches 210 million people in 273 metro areas nationwide and is planning a larger rollout. The move would give customers with a LTE-capable smartphone or tablet access to faster Internet speeds when outside major cities

T-Mobile plans to complete 50% of the initiative and finish it by mid-2015. This is a quick turnaround for the company, which is also working to deploy LTE in the 700 MHz A-Block spectrum. T-Mobile acquired the spectrum from Verizon earlier this year Read more...