Sprint Sues AT&T Over 5G Branding (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday February 8, 2019 @02:41AM from the see-you-in-court dept.

Sprint Corp sued AT&T late on Thursday, saying it is misleading consumers into believing that they are using fifth generation wireless network, known as 5G, a technology that has not yet been widely deployed. From a report: AT&T customers are seeing "5G E" logo on their mobile devices in over 400 markets. Although users are still using 4G network, AT&T is calling it 5G Evolution, a faster version of its existing network and a first step on the road to 5G. 5G can offer data speeds up to 50 or 100 times faster than 4G networks.

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Re:AT&T is calling it 5G Evolution by Anonymous Coward · 2019-02-08 03:46 · Score: 2, Informative

that's what the "4G LTE" bullshit was.. fake "4G" that didn't quite meet the actual specs for it.. so technically, at&t's "5G E" is actually 3G (aka " 3.95G") masquerading as 4G but they're calling it 5G.