ITU Rules That WiMax, LTE Don't Qualify As 4G

GMGruman writes "It's official: All those ads and vendor claims about 4G services being offered today or being right around the corner are fiction. The international standards body ITU has ruled that Clearwire's WiMax network and the LTE systems that Verizon and others are just starting to roll out are not in fact 4G services. Oops."

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LTE-Advanced standards qualify for 4G

[sick_soul]

LTE-Advanced did qualify for 4G,

http://www.3gpp.org/ITU-R-Confers-IMT-Advanced-4G

but it's just a set of standards for now afaik, that still need to be implemented.

First large-scale LTE in the world?

[ckret]

The ITU's current technical definition in no way affects our plans to launch the world's first large-scale LTE network later this year.

Ahem... Stockholm and Oslo already did that while back. I do think they are part of what you call "the world".

Re:Insert more coins to continue

[PolygamousRanchKid]

. . . whatever the ITU is . . .

The ITU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union is pretty damn important. They define all sorts of worldwide standards for the telecommunication industry.

If you visit Geneva, take a walk by their headquarters.