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"AT&amp;T's LTE expansion will officially hit New York City later this month.\nJohn Stephens, the senior executive vice president and CFO for AT&amp;T, announced that the wireless carrier will cover 70 million users with LTE service by the end of 2011. \nThis follows reports of unofficial LTE availability in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn.\nAT&amp;T has trailed its chief competitor, Verizon Wireless, in deploying its next generation network. Verizon started its push for 4G LTE last year and is now in a growing number of metropolitan areas.\nI had a chance to test AT&amp;T's LTE network while in Atlanta for Thanksgiving, and when it's available, the network is exceedingly fast. As with Verizon's implementation, however, LTE devices \u2014 including the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and HTC Vivid \u2014 suck down battery life faster than non-LTE handsets.\nStill, for many users, increased speeds might be worth battery-life compromises. AT&amp;T said today that it expects to break its single-quarter records for smartphone sales \u2014 thanks to increased demand for high-speed devices as well as strong sales of phones like the iPhone 4S.\nAre you itching to upgrade to 4G LTE? Let us know."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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