With a series of launches today and yesterday, AT&T's LTE now covers 150 million people in over 100 markets - something that was originally projected for the end of 2012. LTE was rolled out today in Portland, Pensacola, and several other markets; yesterday, it was turned on in Minneapolis-Saint Paul as well. Seattle, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and others were launched in September, shortly before the iPhone 5's release. Today, AT&T said it was in 103 markets, compared to 53 in August and a mere 26 at the beginning of 2012, when it covered 76 million Americans.

Since the network first launched last August, AT&T has made clear its intention to …

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We knew that AT&T was planning to turn on its LTE service in a number of new regions before the end of the year, and it appears one city has been given the green light: Seattle. A trusted source tells us that the service has in fact gone live in the city, with a reader also reporting that they've recently seen the service sporadically spring to life on their own LTE device. In several tests, the reader saw download speeds range between 17.1Mbps and 22Mbps.

The move happens just days before the release of the iPhone 5, a phone that will no doubt prove to be one of AT&T's most popular LTE devices. With the carrier racing to catch up with Veri …

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AT&T's LTE expansion continues with a fairly major batch of announcements today: the company has turned on 4G LTE in seven new US markets, with more sites planned by the end of 2012. Syracuse, Bakersfield, and Anchorage are among the cities with LTE now available - it's the first time AT&T has expanded into Alaska. Coverage in the New York / New Jersey and Washington, DC areas has also been expanded. Almost four dozen other markets are promised by "the end of the year," including forays into Seattle, Portland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Hawaii. This will almost double AT&T's LTE availability, bringing it from a current 60 markets to over 100.

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Verizon announced yesterday that it's serving 75 percent of the US population with LTE, but AT&T is diligently expanding as well: the company just announced that it's bringing LTE to Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as Waco, Texas. That brings AT&T's total markets served to 53 compared to Verizon's 370 - and even though Verizon had a headstart in its 4G rollout, it's important for AT&T that the gap doesn't widen. While AT&T's latest expansion into Texas and Northwest Arkansas is sure to please customers in those areas, the company still has a long way to go before it completes its LTE rollout scheduled for …

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AT&T announced new LTE markets in Florida and Massachusetts today, and expanded several of its already operational coverage areas. The carrier's high-speed wireless network is now available in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, Florida, as well as Worcester, Massachusetts.

AT&T also expanded coverage in Boston and Washington, DC, which have both had LTE coverage since last November. Boston's coverage area has been expanded to include MetroWest, North Shore, and South Shore, and the DC market now includes Montgomery and Prince George's Counties and some areas in northern Virginia. The Maryland coverage area was also expanded to cov …

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AT&T has extended its LTE network to seven additional markets, covering a total of 47 markets and over 74 million people across the United States. Starting this week, Wichita, Kansas; Corpus Christi, Texas; Gainesville, Georgia; Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; Greensboro and Winston Salem, North Carolina; and additional cities in the Cleveland, Ohio area are home to the network's high-speed wireless network. The carrier's goal is to complete its LTE rollout by the end of 2013, but it still trailing far behind Verizon's 200 LTE-enabled markets.

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AT&T today announced that its 4G LTE network is now live in Cleveland, Ohio, making good on a rollout schedule it laid out back in March. The added market further extends AT&T's LTE coverage map in the Buckeye State after it flipped the switch for residents of Akron and Canton last month. No, the carrier hasn't quite kept pace with Verizon's rapid 4G deployments, but that hasn't left us any less impressed by data speeds we've experienced on AT&T's LTE airwaves. Of course, we're still in the "honeymoon period" where network congestion has yet to rear its ugly head. If you're looking to put AT&T's real 4G network through the paces, there's no …

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AT&T's LTE rollout is pushing on, and we've heard this morning that another 12 markets will be covered by "early summer." While more of the large cities you'd expect are included on that list, the new network's also filtering down to some smaller markets too, ready for the wave of new devices we saw at MWC (as well as the new iPad launched at last week's event).

The markets receiving the upgrade are:

• Cleveland, OH
• Akron, OH
• Canton, OH
• Naples, FL
• Bloomington, IN
• Lafayette, IN
• Muncie, IN
• Baton Rouge, LA
• New Orleans, LA
• St. Louis, MO
• Bryan-College Station, TX
• Staten Island, NYC

These cities will start to go live through April and May, though …

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As an aside in its announcement of 11 new LTE markets, AT&T mentioned something else interesting: it now expects to have its LTE rollout "largely complete by the end of 2013," a sentiment echoed by company exec John Stankey at a conference today. That's the most specific guidance AT&T has given for when it'll be done with its LTE deployment, which also happens to be the same year that it plans on kicking off an even faster LTE-Advanced network in some markets.

The 2013 timeline matches up with both Verizon's and Sprint's plans for LTE completion - though Sprint's starting with a marked disadvantage, obviously, since it doesn't yet have a si …

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AT&T has had its fair share of setbacks lately, but the mobile carrier is pushing forward, announcing today that its new LTE network has gone live in 11 additional markets. Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco are among the new areas. The carrier also lists New York City as one of its new additions, though the network there had already gone live last month when we reviewed the LG Nitro HD.

The new regions join cities like Chicago, Las Vegas, and Boston, bringing the total number of AT&T LTE markets to 26, covering 76 million Americans. While a big step forward, it's still quite short of the 200 million Americans now covered by Verizon' …

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