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AT&T Website Claims iPhone is 4G...

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Shame.. AT&T is lame for this one
 
ihonda said:
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Shame.. AT&T is lame for this one
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Why?

The international standards body ITU, TMobile, Sprint, Verizon, most manufacturers from Motorola, HTC, Samsung etc all consider HSPA+ to be 4G.

Why shame on ATT when they are just toting the industry standard line for what is true?
 
ihonda said:
Shame.. AT&T is lame for this one
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Considering that not even the current implementation of LTE is truly meeting the ITU standard for "4G," then all carriers claiming to have it are pretty lame.

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Menel said:
The international standards body ITU...consider HSPA+ to be 4G.
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Actually no, they don't.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=information&rlink=imt-advanced&lang=en

enhanced peak data rates to support advanced services and applications (100 Mbit/s for high and 1 Gbit/s for low mobility were established as targets for research)
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Although commonly referred to as a type of 4G wireless service, LTE release 8 currently in use does not satisfy the requirements set forth by the ITU-R organization. Future releases of LTE (referred to as LTE Advanced) are expected to satisfy the requirements to be considered 4G.
 
Actually T-Mobile started marketing their HSPA+ network as 4G before anyone else which led to a competitive advantage b/c most consumers are not knowledgeable about the actual difference b/w 3G and 4G (but obviously 4G sounds better). In order to be able to compete, AT&T had to do the same and began marketing their HSPA+ network as 4G as well even though they were already planning their LTE deployment (which is why they now have 2 4G networks). I can't blame AT&T for this move from a business perspective...if anyone should be blamed, look at T-Mobile.
 
AlphaVictor87 said:
how do you consider the 4s to be partially supported?
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In terms of speed.

The iPhone 4S only supports a maximum data rate of 14.4mbps (and the actual speed will be much less than that after overheads).

Some HSPA+ devices sold by AT&T support speeds up to 42mbps.

I don't consider HSPA+ at 42mbps to be 4G, so I certainly don't consider a device limited to only 14.4mbps to be 4G.
 
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