In a flurry of press releases today, AT&T announced a slew of new 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) markets. The news includes a total of 54 new markets, 7 are online today, 2 are market expansions, and 47 will come online before the end of 2012. There's no doubt some strategery involved here, as this announcement comes just under a week before the formal announcement of Apple's upcoming iPhone which will undoubtedly include LTE. I've gone through all the press releases and compiled a list of the new markets:

New AT&T LTE Markets

 

Available Today:

 

Anchorage, Alaska

Bakersfield, California

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Jacksonville, Florida

Modesto, California

Expansion: Northern Montgomery county, Maryland (Germantown, Clarksburg, Boyd's, Poolsville and Damascus Hope)

Expansion: Northern New Jersey (Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Essex, Union and Middlesex Counties from Norwood to the Raritan Bay.)

Omaha, Nebraska

Syracuse, New York

 

End of 2012:

 

Albany, New York

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Allentown, Pennsylvania

Birmingham, Alabama

Boise, Idaho

Charleston, South Carolina

Cincinnati, Ohio

Columbia, South Carolina

Columbus, Ohio

Denver-Boulder, Colorado

Detroit, Michigan

El Paso, Texas

Fayetteville, North Carolina

Fort Myers, Florida

Gary, Indiana

Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Greenville, South Carolina

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Hartford, Connecticut

Honolulu, Hawaii

Knoxville, Tennessee 

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Little Rock, Arkansas

Louisville, Kentucky

Memphis, Tennessee 

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Nashua, New Hampshire 

New Haven, Connecticut

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Maine

Providence, Rhode Island

Reading, Pennsylvania 

Rochester, New York

Sacramento, California

Salinas-Seaside-Monterey, California

Seattle, Washington

Springfield, Massachusetts 

Toledo, Ohio

Tucson, Arizona

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilmington, Delaware 

AT&T LTE uses 10 MHz FDD-LTE in most markets, 5 MHz FDD-LTE in others on LTE bands 17 (700 MHz lower) and 4 (AWS), though I'm not aware of any markets having band 4 LTE lit up quite yet. That varies from market to market depending on spectrum licensing. As an aside, this includes my own home market of Tucson, AZ which will finally obviate the need to drive to Phoenix, AZ for LTE testing handsets, or handing them off to Anand for testing in his AT&T LTE market. The news should be up on AT&T's own press site later today.

Update: It looks like AT&T is continuing to announce more markets, updating as necessary.

Update 2: I've now gotten the final list. The total is now 7 new markets, 2 market expansions, and 47 more new markets by the end of the year, which brings the total to 107 markets by the end of 2012. 

Source: AT&T