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5GE: AT&T's Misleading Label on iPhone
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In Hong Kong this may be a criminal offence claiming to have a service that you cannot or are not offering.
The thing was, 4G was supposed to be used for the new LTE technology that jumped past the best 3G could do (HSPA+)...AT&T stole the term, trying to look like the first to market, and effed it all up, instead creating confusion in the market, just like they’re doing now. What they were calling 4G was simply the best 3G could do, and they could have called it 3G+. Sure it was better, but it wasn’t 4G. So, when it was actually available, everyone else ended up calling it LTE or 4G LTE.
[doublepost=1553575804][/doublepost]I don’t think there is any legal basis...they’re all just marketing terms for the technology that is actually more complicated than just how fast it is. They just want people to think they’re first to market with it, but, now they’ve, again, instead created confusion.
[doublepost=1553575804][/doublepost]I don’t think there is any legal basis...they’re all just marketing terms for the technology that is actually more complicated than just how fast it is. They just want people to think they’re first to market with it, but, now they’ve, again, instead created confusion.
This is standard practice.
People were advertising "4G" long before LTE.
It's funny that people are getting so worked up over this.
People were advertising "4G" long before LTE.
It's funny that people are getting so worked up over this.
Not really standard practice just because a few did things incorrectly.
In almost all other countries in the world this would be considered economic fraud. I’m sorry for you US-citizens.
We here are not affected, but I strongly believe that this is something where Apple should step in. To protect it's iPhone users.
AT&T says that in areas with these upgraded LTE technologies, customers can reach peak theoretical wireless speeds of up to 400 megabits per second, which translates to around 40 megabits per second in real-world usage.
Should be Megabytes, also, 1 byte is 8 bits, so 400 Mbits/s translates to 50 MB/s
AT&T doesn't write iPhone firmware, so they couldn't have made this change by themselves. In other words Apple is complicit.
I once worked at the corporate offices for the predecessor to AT&T, Cingular Wireless. They were so concerning to me as a customer at the time, that I changed while working there to a different carrier. I figured Verizon would screw me over, too, but at least I didn't know how, and I didn't write code for their systems that did the screwing. Horrible company.
I do not care. I know what 5Ge means. Not willing and will not think for others.
T-mobile and Sprint suck in my area, but they think about others, not about their networks.
I think we have more important problems in our society, like bring money back from offshores, pay taxes, so we can have better hospitals, schools, roads, social services.
MacRumors attacks “DeathStar” more than any other company.
What about fake mapping of others?
What about fake SlowCooker Union and the highest number of complaints per worker there(according to Union of Communication Workers) ?
T-mobile’s lack of postpaid eSIM?
T-mobile privacy?
Power generators?
Trump hotel?
Macrumors, are you paid by “Slowcooker”? Hope you are not.
T-mobile and Sprint suck in my area, but they think about others, not about their networks.
I think we have more important problems in our society, like bring money back from offshores, pay taxes, so we can have better hospitals, schools, roads, social services.
MacRumors attacks “DeathStar” more than any other company.
What about fake mapping of others?
What about fake SlowCooker Union and the highest number of complaints per worker there(according to Union of Communication Workers) ?
T-mobile’s lack of postpaid eSIM?
T-mobile privacy?
Power generators?
Trump hotel?
Macrumors, are you paid by “Slowcooker”? Hope you are not.
Yup, it is super surprising that Apple intentionally added this as a listed update in the 12.2 documentation. It really goes against the grain of their publicly outward facing customer advocacy stance.
This isn't the only thing that AT&T is doing that is ridiculous. While comparing the channel layouts for their U-Verse serve, they list the marketing and junk channels like 'bathroom renovation', and 'treating baldness' as 'featured channels' that people should feel glad to shell out butt loads of cash for. And according to their 'guide', the lower paying tier doesn't get gifted with that junk.
I nearly laughed. So, I'm paying that much to support those channels too? I feel so special to have that avenue for them to market junk to me, and I'm paying for it too. Nice... Spam is a feature? I'd pay a little extra to be able to permanently block that crap from popping up every so often.
I nearly laughed. So, I'm paying that much to support those channels too? I feel so special to have that avenue for them to market junk to me, and I'm paying for it too. Nice... Spam is a feature? I'd pay a little extra to be able to permanently block that crap from popping up every so often.
Money speaks my friend Tim Cook has no balls
. I used to remember they demand things not the other way around.Speedtest.net (which isn’t accurate) is showing ~85 down and ~15 up on 5Ge.
I have not been able to load speedof.me on ATTs network. Connection is terminated. Possibly blocking it.
Netflix fast is showing only 4.5 down which is getting throttled. I have unlimited and nowhere near their limit.
I have not been able to load speedof.me on ATTs network. Connection is terminated. Possibly blocking it.
Netflix fast is showing only 4.5 down which is getting throttled. I have unlimited and nowhere near their limit.
I’m in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area and I’ve been getting around these results consistently.
