It's been a while since we last saw AT&T light up any new markets with its 4G LTE coverage, but today the big blue carrier's LTE drought has come to an end.

AT&T announced this morning that it's activated its LTE service in a handful of cities and expanded it in a couple of others. Here's what that list of locales looks like:

New markets

• Anderson, Ind.
• Deridder, La.
• Midland, Mich.
• Lumberton, N.C.
• Bismarck, N.D.
• Claremont, N.H.
• Bellefontaine, Ohio
• Defiance, Ohio
• Greenwood, S.C.
• Seneca, S.C.

Expanded markets

• Lebanon, Mo.
• Gainesville, Texas

AT&T's latest LTE expansion looks like a nice mixture of large and small markets as well as new and expanded coverage. Now AT&T is one step closer to reaching its goal of having a "substantially complete" 4G LTE network by the middle of 2014. Here's to hoping that it's not another three or four weeks before the operator takes another step.

Via AT&T