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AT&T Sued by Sprint for Misleading '5GE' Branding [Updated With AT&T Statement]
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They are competitors and I am sure these logos are worldwide standardized at least they should be no? If anything it should be LTE+
Unfortunately, I think there are standards set by certain governing bodies, but the carriers often do what they want. Some will argue that even some implementations of LTE are technically "not even 4G" even though for T-Mobile and AT&T customers, LTE > 4G on their devices. Since there's no punishment or anyone holding them accountable, a carrier could call their new network "Super Cool Awesome Cellular Data Network" and ignore any sort of standardization. Personally, I'd love to see some consistency, along the lines of where they've gone with Wi-Fi generations (increasing numeric values), or adding a + for the "enhanced" version of a half-generation (3G, 3G+ (HSPA), 4G (LTE), 4G+ (LTE Advanced), 5G, etc.)
Exactly. I'm glad to see that so many people remember the similar AT&T farce where they tried to call HSPA+ "4G", whereas 3.5G would have been a more appropriate term. But trying to use the "5Ge" label is definitely deceptive and confusing, especially since there has been minimal 5G rollout so far, which is why I'm not worried in the least if an Apple phone doesn't have 5G support until at least next year.
Remember when Sprint used WiMax and called it 4G.
https://gizmodo.com/sprint-is-ditching-4g-wimax-for-4g-lte-what-it-means-f-5847643
https://gizmodo.com/sprint-is-ditching-4g-wimax-for-4g-lte-what-it-means-f-5847643
I feel Samsung should have been sued over QLED as well. The number of people I know who tell me they have an OLED and it turns out to be a QLED is ridiculous. They genuinely think they bought into OLED technology.
Telcos market it here in Australia as 4GX and 4G Plus which I think makes much more sense than AT&T’s misleading 5Ge
LTE-A should be called that, LTE-A.
The fact that AT&T put the number 5 in there is already misleading, no matter how "clear" they "define" it. It's not actual 5G, so the number 5 should not be in it, period.
The fact that AT&T put the number 5 in there is already misleading, no matter how "clear" they "define" it. It's not actual 5G, so the number 5 should not be in it, period.
My guess is 5G.
Reasoning AT&T uses the following:
E
3G
4G
LTE
Soon to use:
5GE
Then
5G is my guess.
Best thing I've seen Sprint do since... well ever I guess.
And by AT&T's own statement, if this is an evolution of LTE, then it should be LTEE or LTE+. We haven't reached 5G yet so it can't be evolved or show a symbol indicating it has. Fools.
And by AT&T's own statement, if this is an evolution of LTE, then it should be LTEE or LTE+. We haven't reached 5G yet so it can't be evolved or show a symbol indicating it has. Fools.
I’d say less foolish than greedy & deceptive. They did get away with it in 2010, so why not do it again?
T-mobile really was the starter of that as they didn’t have much LTE coverage at the time but had plenty of HSPA+.
The fact that so many carriers got away with a “4G” scam though (AT&T and T-mobile both advertising HSPA+ as 4G while sprint was advertising WIMAX as 4G all while these technologies were not meeting actual speed requirements for 4G) is definitely what’s making AT&T more brazen about misleading 5G technology, they did it in the past without major backlash so they’re trying it again.
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And what benefits would that be? To stream 10 4K videos simultaneously? Or to blow through your monthly data cap in 20 seconds?
Haven’t bought a tv in awhile but I honestly thought Samsung’s QLED line was their OLED line, at least that’s what I’ve gotten from the commercials
What’s the actual difference? I will be buying a tv soon.
AT&T has really been taking a beating lately, losing subscribers in almost every venture, (wireless, uverse, directv, directv now, hbo, nba), now they’re getting sued, the directv merger is really weighing them down, and they’re unable to provide UFC pay per views, because they decided to argue over pennies.
Different topic/thread.Haven’t bought a tv in awhile but I honestly thought Samsung’s QLED line was their OLED line, at least that’s what I’ve gotten from the commercials
What’s the actual difference? I will be buying a tv soon.
Start a new thread and tag them. Heck, tag me too! (I wasn't even aware that this was a "thing.")Hoping they’ll PM
Clearly, the current naming standards are meaningless.
I think the industry should switch to "#.##G" naming standard:
I think the industry should switch to "#.##G" naming standard:
- 2.5G: 2G GPRS
- 2.9G: 2G EDGE
- 2.9G+: 2G Evolved Edge
- 3G: 3G UMTS and 3G WCDMA
- 3.5G: 3G HSPA
- 3.75G: 3G HSPA+
- 3.9G: 3G HSOPA (indicated by some carrier as "4G")
- 4G: 4G LTE (indicated on most phones as "LTE")
- 4.25G? (not an official name): 4G LTE Advanced (indicated by some carrier as "4G+")
- 4.5G: 4G LTE Advanced Pro (indicated by AT&T as "5Ge")
- 5G: 5G
I've been with AT&T since the rollout of the very first iPhone. The only possible way to interpret their response is "we'll say whatever we want no matter how misleading." My next iPhone will definitely not be on the AT&T network. I realize all of these telecoms are within a fraction of an inch of each other with their ethical behavior but AT&T currently stands a little lower than the rest.