AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday January 7, 2019 @08:05AM from the new-lows dept.

As promised, AT&T has updated three smartphones from Samsung and LG to make them show 5G connectivity logos, even though none of them are capable of connecting to 5G networks. From a report: Now, when the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, LG V30, or LG V40 are connected to portions of AT&T's LTE network that have received some speed-boosting updates, they'll show an icon that says "5G E" instead of "LTE." That "E" in the "5G" logo is supposed to tip you off that this isn't real 5G -- just some marketing nonsense. But there's no way of knowing that just from looking at the logo. The "E" is smaller than the rest of the icon. And even if you do learn that "5G E" stands for "5G Evolution," it isn't immediately clear what that means.

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Re:What are they thinking???? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-07 08:43 · Score: 2, Insightful

No they won't. They didn't win last time when AT&T did the same shit labeling HSPA+ as "4G". There were articles just like this saying that they were misleading customers then too and nothing at all happened to them over it. Just another day of companies lying to us.