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

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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AT&T is calling it 5G Evolution

[Red_Forman]

And I'm calling it "5G dumbasses".

They should call it "4G E", for "4G enhanced" and it would probably be okay with everyone involved.

have the ITU revise the 5G spec to make it clear

[EnOne]

If the International Olympic Committee IOC can say who can and can't say "Olympics" then the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) should be able to say what is and isn't "4G" "4G LTE" "4G LTE E" "5G E" or "5G"