MetroPCS bringing LTE to Las Vegas this year, Samsung doing infrastructure and first LTE handset: the SCH-r900

Look out folks, we’re about to go LTE, and it’s not from where you were expecting: MetroPCS is building out an LTE network in “various metropolitan markets,” with Las Vegas due to go online first in the second half of 2010. Samsung will be doing the infrastructure work, and is running the presser here at CTIA, with a pretty impressive display of room-based LTE show of force. Samsung, as previously announced, will also be building the first 4G handset for the network, dubbed the SCH-r900, though they aren’t sharing any other details about the device at this point. Samsung ran a quick demo of 4G performance using some laptops and a couple of racks of LTE parts (we’ll have video up momentarily), and was also running some sort of LTE prototype (pictured above), though we don’t know squat about it. PR is after the break.

Update: There’s video after the break! Witness those blazing 4G speeds for yourself, you’ll be amazed and astonished. Or at least mildly entertained.

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