Samsung Galaxy S3 lands on U.S. Cellular (pictures)

The Big Four carriers aren't the only ones to get Samsung's flagship Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone. The Midwestern regional carrier does, too.

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U.S. Cellular's turn at the Samsung Galaxy S3

The regional carrier, strongest in the Midwest, gets a big win with the Samsung Galaxy S3, running on its nascent LTE network.

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LTE for some

U.S. Cellular covers about 25 percent of its customer base with LTE at the time of this review, the carrier says, but plans to expand to just over 50 percent of its market by the end of 2012. Customers roaming outside of the home network are limited to 3G, rather than 4G speeds.