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

Posted by timothy on from the ok-roll-camera-but-say-3g-plus dept.

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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  1. Re:First large-scale LTE in the world? by sznupi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What Verizon calls "large scale" is just the Houston area initially, with other major metropolitan areas and large airports following. You didn't really thought it will be a rapid rollout throughout most of the land area of the US, right? (BTW, Sweden and Norway have significantly lower population density)

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  2. Marketing ... by LordKaT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Marketing claims to have a number. Engineers say otherwise.

    Scott Adams finds more material to write about.