According to this article http://www.wirelessweek.com/Articles...iers-Count-On/ regional cellphone providers are facing a very serious problem: after having made millions of dollars of investment in their new LTE systems, there are no phones available to use on those systems.

Participants in Verizon's LTE in Rural America program should be able to have access to more common models since they are using the same frequencies that Verizon uses, but none of the LTEiRA participants to date that have launched systems have any phones available either.