Earlier tonight, for the first time, I saw the "4G" icon light up on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3).
I was at York Road and Ashland (Paper Mill) Rd., a few hundred yards south of Hunt Valley Towne Center. The time was around 9:30PM. Unfortunately, I didn't think to run a "How fast is your connection" app, and take a screen shot. Frankly, as I was using the S3 to make a simple voice phone call, I can't even tell you how blindingly fast some webpage loaded. Sorry.
I'm back home now, and can report that I'm not seeing any 4G signal. Given that I had a rather strong signal barely 1.5 miles south of here, I'm thinking it may be that 4G was only turned on for a limited time, and not that I'm out of the cell tower's range.
Anyway, it's encouraging to have discovered signs of genuine, 4G LTE connectivity, given that the Baltimore area is supposed to go active within the next couple of weeks. Even more encouraging to have reason to believe that there will be a decent 4G LTE signal out in this part of the County, and not just in downtown Baltimore. Not that I have any problems getting by with 3G speeds, myself. But hey, I'll be happy to get 4G, even if I don't actually have all that much need for it. Better to have the speed and not need it, than to need it and not have it, right?
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Michael