"From looking at Verizon's coverage maps, it looks like Verizon has equipped 3 cellphone towers with LTE equipment. Major investment! In Fort Smith, Arkansas it's 2. It doesn't look like the 700MHz spectrum is capable of covering a larger area than the current technology. When LTE was first announced, it was said that the 700 MHz spectrum would be 5 times more efficient, requiring far less towers to cover the same area. This does not seem to be the case, so people outside the major metropolitan areas are still out of luck. "