Sprint Expands 4G Coverage To St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Richmond

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While such phones as the EVO 4G and recently introduced Epic 4G are the first to use Sprint’s 4G network, the big drawback right now is that’s very limited in what markets it’s in. Of course, such things change overtime, and Sprint has flipped the 4G switch in three new cities, Salt Lake City, Utah; St. Louis Missouri; and Richmond, Virginia.

This should bring the total of cities with Sprint 4G coverage to about 31 by our count. Still not a large margin of the US population by anybody’s standard, but Sprint is working on it. Chicago is probably the biggest US city to get Sprint 4G so far, but New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington DC are just among the other big cities still missing Sprint’s WiMAX coverage.

Still, by the end of the year, Sprint hopes to have “Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Washington DC” covered with WiMAX coverage.

Right now, their isn’t exactly a wide selection of 4G phones, either. The EVO 4G is already out. The Epic 4G is on its way, and Sprint also offers a few other mobile WiFi hotspots.

Unfortunately, Sprint charges the $10 “premium data fee” on the EVO 4G, and something their probably charge on the Epic 4G. Sprint likes to explain this charge as necessary because they expect EVO users to use more data – but really it’s subsidizing their unfinished WiMax network.

Regardless, a lot more people should see Sprint 4G sometime this year.