By: Ian Mansfield | 6th Jan 2012

Sprint Nextel's CEO Dan Hesse announced that the company's first LTE coverage will go live in Dallas, Atlanta, Houston and San Antonio in the first half of 2012.

"Within the first half of 2012, Sprint customers should experience first-hand the wide-reaching improvements we have made in terms of boosting voice and data quality," said Bob Azzi, senior vice president - Network, Sprint.

Sprint's Network Vision platform involves the deployment of multimode base stations across many of Sprint's cell sites throughout the country. As base stations are deployed, customers are expected to notice immediate improvements in voice quality, signal density and data speeds. The first completed deployment of a multimode base station was in Branchburg, N.J., in December 2011. As additional areas receive 3G enhancements and LTE service, announcements will be made.

Another component of Sprint's network strategy has been the deployment of Sprint Direct Connect on the CDMA network. Sprint's legacy in push-to-talk continues with new CDMA devices that launched in September, 2011.

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