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iPhone XS ATT 5Ge

dwfaust said:
I started seeing it in Phoenix last week or so. #meh
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Only certain sections of Phoenix I have noticed. Also, I have been seeing "4G" a lot more too, which means are they upgrading to whatever fake 5G this is around town? Of course "4G" is really 3G which begs me to believe they are taking down LTE towers to do upgrades etc to fake 5G. Seriously AT&T why waste all of this energy and just wait for the real thing?
 
unibility said:
I notice the 5Ge symbol appearing on my iPhone earlier in the afternoon. Am I missing something? I didn’t know that the latest iPhone has the ability to use this technology. Anyone else getting this too? I know that the Samsung Galaxy S9+ has it appearing on my fiancé phone too.
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You’re not missing anything. It’s just a symbol of what they hope to accomplish in years down the road.
Check your speed it’s still the same as LTE
 
coldwaves said:
It is a marketing thing from AT&T. Their advertisement seems to be everywhere now where they say "5G evolution, the first step towards 5G". I remember reading on MacRumors that it is really just a form of 4G LTE. In actual speed test, the 5GE speed is no faster than the LTE speed you get from Verizon or T-mobile.
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Maybe. I think that if you're in an LTE-A area, then 5G E is probably the same as your LTE speed.

But it's only going to be an LTE-A array with decent backhaul. I don't think they should show the 5G E symbol at all, because of the vagaries associated with backhaul. There are quite a few LTE-A arrays in the NoVA/DC area which during the evening rush are so slow that nobody would ever believe they were on LTE of any kind.

Personally, I think AT&T has made a marketing mistake with this.
 
It will be several years before we see major cities getting 5G. More than that for smaller cities and even more outside of cities. It requires a lot of equipment be installed for you to have 5G.

Heck, with our government telling China that they will not be importing Huewie equipment, it is still up in the air who will be doing the hardware. Glad it will not have China's equipment!

Apple is wise to wait on 5G!
 
jakeuten said:
Oh, how the tune changes.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/at-t-chides-t-mobile-for-misleading-4g-marketing-hspa
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To be honest, I think T-Mobile is going to do it again.

It sounds to me like T-Mobile's 5G rollout is going to be on their [600' and some [800] arrays, in order to avoid having to build an ocean of ultra high frequency microcells.

Although, technically, they will be able to get into the range of speed and range of latency that is 5G, it's not going to be like Verizon's 5G with all those microcells all over the place.

But the advantage to what T-Mobile is doing is that we'll be able to get better than LTE-A experiences even in remote, rural areas.

And they say that in metro areas their signals will be more pervasive than the Verizon and AT&T signals.

All I know is that Legere is crazy, and I haven't seen him take a bad step yet. So...we'll see! :)
 
George Knighton said:
To be honest, I think T-Mobile is going to do it again.

It sounds to me like T-Mobile's 5G rollout is going to be on their [600' and some [800] arrays, in order to avoid having to build an ocean of ultra high frequency microcells.

Although, technically, they will be able to get into the range of speed and range of latency that is 5G, it's not going to be like Verizon's 5G with all those microcells all over the place.

But the advantage to what T-Mobile is doing is that we'll be able to get better than LTE-A experiences even in remote, rural areas.

And they say that in metro areas their signals will be more pervasive than the Verizon and AT&T signals.

All I know is that Legere is crazy, and I haven't seen him take a bad step yet. So...we'll see! :)
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TMobile will not be doing it. The 5G they will be doing is NR which is true 5G. Also accept for Myrtle Beach TMobile doesn't own or operated any 800 mhz.
They will be using 600 my for 5G, yes, once the get Sprint then B41 also along with mm wave
 
Fake or not it’s definitely faster on my phone. I was usually getting around 50 mbps at my house and now I’m getting over 150+ mbps consistently

Just checked now and tested over 280 mbps!
 

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agente46 said:
Fake or not it’s definitely faster on my phone. I was usually getting around 50 mbps at my house and now I’m getting over 150+ mbps consistently

Just checked now and tested over 280 mbps!
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To get an idea of whether or not it’s actually faster, you need to perform consistent testing over a period of time using exacting standards. If you did that, you should find NO difference in the speeds.

There are too many variables at play for a few random speed tests to actually mean anything. Atmospheric conditions, tower congestion, server congestion, and 100 other things play into the speeds that you get.

That’s still blazing fast, though.
 
I finally saw the 5G-E on my iPhone XS in the King of Prussia Mall area in PA. I ran speedtest app and I can say the d/l speed was much better than any LTE test I ran. It was 108 Mbps down. Impressive and lightening quick when browsing the web

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LTE-A and Carrier Aggregation helps with that. Instead of pulling from one cell tower, they aggregate several towers with different frequency to allow more bust speed. It’s called 4G+

5Ge is Gigabit LTE which helps distinguish it from traditional 4G (circa 2012) or 4G+ (circa 2016).
 
rdy0329 said:
LTE-A and Carrier Aggregation helps with that. Instead of pulling from one cell tower, they aggregate several towers with different frequency to allow more bust speed. It’s called 4G+

5Ge is Gigabit LTE which helps distinguish it from traditional 4G (circa 2012) or 4G+ (circa 2016).
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Where are you getting that from? Carrier's have multiple LTE bands on the same tower and aggregate that way.
 
dwfaust said:
If Sal is an attorney, he'll make a little cash. If Sal is a consumer, he might get a couple of dollars. This whole "class-action lawsuit" serves no one but the law firms, and is no more noble than making up faster-sounding cellular data names.
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The lead plaintiff in a class action will likely receive more than the standard payment. As for an individual class member...sure, in many cases the compensation will be a small amount. But exactly how much should an individual consumer receive for this? That's kind of the point: the class action designation allows affected consumers to collectively pursue a claim that would be impractical on an individual basis.
 
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