Here are Verizon's initial XLTE cities

By Phil Nickinson
published

Verizon has fired up a new, beefier branding for its 4G LTE smartphone service. Dubbed XLTE, it takes advantage of the AWS spectrum to double the bandwidth in high-traffic locations. And here's the list of cities that get it first.

Alabama: Birmingham, Decatur, Florence, Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa

Arizona: Flagstaff, Phoenix, Prescott, Tucson

Arkansas: El Dorado-Magnolia, Fayetteville-Springdale, Fort Smith, Hot Springs, Jonesboro, Little Rock, Russellville

California: Bakersfield, Chico-Oroville, Fresno, Los Angeles, Merced, Modesto, Oakland, Redding, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Stockton, Visalia-Porterville, Yuba City-Marysville

Colorado: Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Greeley, Pueblo

Connecticut: Greater Fairfield and New Haven, Hartford, New London County

Delaware: Dover, Fort Myers, Fort Pierce-Vero Beach

District of Columbia: Washington DC

Florida: Gainesville, Lakeland-Winter Haven, Melbourne-Titusville, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, Pensacola, Sarasota-Bradenton, Tallahassee, Tampa-St. Petersburg, West PalmBeach

Georgia: Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus

Hawaii: Honolulu, Kahului-Wailuku

Illinois: Bloomington, Carbondale, Champaign-Urbana, Chicago, Danville, Decatur-Effingham, Kankakee, La Salle-Peru-Ottawa, Mattoon, Peoria, Rockford, Springfield

Indiana: Anderson, Bloomington-Bedford, Columbus, Elkhart, Evansville, Indianapolis, Kokomo-Logansport, Lafayette, Marion, Richmond, South Bend-Mishawaka, Terre Haute, Vincennes-Washington

Iowa: Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Sioux City, Blackfoot, Burley, Pocatello

Kansas: Dodge City, Garden City, Hays, Manhattan-Junction City, McPherson, Salina, Topeka, Wichita

Kentucky: Lexington, Louisville

Louisiana: Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Monroe, New Orleans, Shreveport

Maryland: Baltimore, Salisbury

Massachusetts: Boston, Hyannis-Mid-Cape, Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester-Fitchburg

Michigan: Benton Harbor, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Houghton, Lansing

Minnesota: Bemidji, Brainerd, Duluth, Fergus Falls-Alexandria, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Rochester, St. Cloud

Missouri: Jefferson City, Kansas City, St. Joseph

Montana: Billings

Nebraska: Grand Island-Kearney, Lincoln, North Platte, Omaha, Scottsbluff

Nevada: Las Vegas, Reno

New Hampshire: Manchester-Nashua

New Jersey: Atlantic City

New Mexico: Albuquerque, Santa Fe

New York: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, Elmira-Corning-Hornell, Ithaca, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica

North Carolina: Asheville, Charlotte-Gastonia, Fayetteville-Lumberton, Raleigh-Durham, Wilmington

North Dakota: Bismarck, Dickinson, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, Williston

Ohio: Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland-Akron, Columbus, Dayton-Springfield, Findlay-Tiffin, Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Portsmouth, Toledo

Oklahoma: Bartlesville, Lawton, Liberal, Oklahoma City, Tulsa

Oregon: Eugene-Springfield, Portland, Salem-Albany-Corvallis

Pennsylvania: Allentown-Bethlehem, Altoona, Erie, Harrisburg, Indiana, Lancaster, Pittsburgh, Reading, Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Shamokin, Sharon, State College, Stroudsburg, Williamsport, York

Rhode Island: Greater Providence

South Carolina: Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greenville-Spartanburg, Greenwood, Myrtle Beach

South Dakota: Aberdeen, Rapid City, Sioux Falls

Tennessee: Chattanooga, Cleveland, Cookeville, Dyersburg, Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville

Texas: Amarillo, Austin, Beaumont-Port Arthur, Bryan-College Station, Corpus Christi, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Laredo, Longview-Marshall, Paris, San Antonio, Sherman-Denison, Temple-Killeen, Tyler, Waco, Wichita Falls

Utah: Logan, Provo, Salt Lake City-Ogden

Virginia: Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, Greater Hampton Roads, Harrisonburg, Richmond, Roanoke, Winchester

Washington: Longview, Olympia, Seattle-Tacoma, Spokane

Wisconsin: Appleton-Oshkosh, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Green Bay

Source: Verizon [pdf]

Apologies for the earlier formatting issues in the app, they have been fixed

Phil Nickinson
Phil Nickinson

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70 Comments
  • I see html code in the windows phone app
  • Me too
  • Same here
  • Yup
  • Same here.
  • Yep
  • But it looks like it's commented out? Hmmm....
  • Yeah, sorry about that. All better now.
  • Same here
  • I'm in Chattanooga, TN. Lumia Icon. Speeds are definitely faster. 35-45 Mbps Down, 15 Mbps Up. Much faster than the last time I checked the LTE network speeds.
  • Yay Pittsburgh!
  • Forget Pittsburg... Why not Philadelphia??? You know we the big city in PA.
  • yea, wth? philly one of the biggest cities in the US. maybe because its the home of comcast. just taking a guess lol
  • Cool, Atlanta is on the. I just wonder how far into the burbs it goes. I live about 40 or so miles out.
  • So this is why my download speeds are much faster today on my L822 (Syracuse, NY REPRESENT!).
  • Go Orange!
  • D'oh looks like my phone doesn't support XLTE. Did a speed test and getting same D/U speeds.
  • The list is seriously broken in the app
  • Apologies for that — it has been fixed.
  • I didn't realize that this website has become "carrier central"
  • This is just a PSA.. No one is making you read the article eash lol.
  • The influence of the mother ship, Mobile Nations.
  • If you have a Verizon Windows Phone, you might very well be interested in what XLTE has to offer. I'm sorry if that offends you.
  • I'm not offended but we're seeing news about carriers more than news about Windows phone itself
  • Maybe there isn't that much news to report. It happens when you dedicate an entire site to one thing.
  • As a new purchaser of an Icon and in Colorado I am definitely interested in this.
  • Being the owner of a Lumia Icon, I was very interested in this article.
  • Decatur and Florence get it before Huntsville? I don't even use Verizon and that is BS.
  • Are tech writers really going to follow along in calling this "xlte"? I guess since they went along with t-mobile calling hdspa+ "lte" then this will fly too.
  • Not every carrier has this spectrum to use so Verizon is making it known that their LTE is a little better than before. It's a way for the company to get the word out that if you weren't wowed by speeds before look again. Writers will mention it for a few months and then will likely go back to just 4G when it becomes more commonplace (i.e. Every phone available on VZW supports it.
  • So.....a lot? I figured it would be like 5 major US cities haha.
  • Can we get a comparison guys against at&t?
    Every city is different but I wanna see the hype. Thought only two phones would take advantage of the new XLTE (iPhone 5s & GS5)
  • Hawaii is merged into Georgia, if you want to split it out.
  • Whoops, fixed!
  • So rapid city has Verizon xlte and att hasn't even rolled out lte here yet :P I hope att updates our network soonish
  • Haha we just got LTE from AT&T like 6 months ago. Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't cover most of my state or I would switch.
  • Seeing as this list is fairly large, surprised Boise didn't make the list, we've had 4G LTE for some time, I would have expected it. Though the traffic may not be bad enough yet to require it.
  • Why is it so hard to include Southern California? It's the Mecca of the United States.
  • It's probably not included because people there naively think it's the "mecca of the United States." It's not.
  • LOL!
    +1520!!!!!
  • Haha!! That was good.
  • Woot woot Las Vegas on the list will make a switch :D
  • All LTE phones benefit from this like you need a new LTE phone?
  • Nashville!
  • Seems faster No...seriously.
  • Sitting not pretty in Buffalo with my 928. Still 17.95 down mbps.....and 6.71 mbps upload speeds.......come on XLTE !!!
  • Also in Buffalo sporting my 928! Hopefully this comes to more devices soon...
  • Fres-NOOOO!
  • Yeaaaa!!
  • So does the 928 get this??? It has aws in it
  • Tyler, Texas! Too bad I have at&t.
  • Blackfoot, Burley, Pocatello are not Iowa cities.   I think they might be Idaho.  You merged both states.  :)
  • Using a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in Tulsa OK  and got 41.64Mbps down and 13.51 Mbps up. Last time I checked a few months ago, I was getting mid 20's down, so definitely a big boost on a couple years old tablet.
  • Wow that's a serious roll out. I see my city on there. Man these companies cant keep up with verizon
  • Actually calling it xlte doesn't make it better. We on AT&T get those speeds anyway. And we have had these speeds for almost a year where I live. And I live in a small Connecticut town, not a city.
  • It isn't just about speeds. Is about bandwidth too. More users running concurrently without degraded service. That's why they say double the bandwidth, not double the speeds...
  • Nevada: Las Vegas, Reno.  Awesome. Also a name that will never see Sprint LTE.
  • Downtown Phoenix here, on a 928. No change yet observed. About 6 down and 7 up this morning. (When LTE first launched I saw up to about 14 down but as more obtained it 6-10 is more common)
  • 928 is not currently supported...
  • 41 mb/s down, 20 up in No. VA.
  • 5Mb down and 6Mb up in Silver Spring MD on Nokia Icon 4 bars and LTE lable.
  • Cool, I get it at home and work....Shocker actually, till about 2 years ago, we had a verizon DEAD spot (White spot, no coverage on Verizon's map) at the end of my road. I had to use a Network Exender for 3G coverage. LOL Will phones be updated to show xLTE or will it just show LTE when under coverage ? 44.18Mbps down and 10.63Mbps up here in Westerly, RI (at work)...I guess I am covered...
  • Will just show LTE.
  • Baltimore baby but....I don't have Verizon so....great.
  • I don't believe the Bryan-College Station, Texas listing. I'm on my Lumia 928 and their LTE is spotty enough here so I can't imagine XLTE being live.
  • In Cleveland TN. This is neat. Too bad plan on dropping Verizon
  • My city is in the list! (but I'm an at&t subscriber)
  • 31 Mbps down/15 Mbps up in Gaithersburg, MD... nice!
  • I expect it will just be another barrage of marketing BS followed up by lots of placebo effect comments.  I live in the core of Phoenix area LTE coverage and, like most I know, barely ever see two bars of signal strength.  Has there been anything of note today?  Well yes, both of my phones have been displaying 3G most of the time. 
  • Woohoo I wasn't expecting to actually see Columbus GA lol