Softbank to Acquire 70% Stake in Sprint for $20.1 Billion

2G, 3G, 4G etc are just marketing terms when you get right down to it...there's never been a clear definition of '3G' or an independent body that certified what was and was not '3G'....which is why you get such radically different results on allegedly '3G' networks....with some 3G networks being faster than others by an order of magnitude....

The bottom line is, the only way we ever had to know what was, and was not '3G" was the fact that the carrier put the little '3G' alpha tag on our phones....