T-Mobile Files Cease and Desist Against Verizon Over Ads
The truth hurts
I mean, I suppose that they could run 30 minute infomercials where an engineering professor from MIT could give a lecture laying out in full detail just what the difference between HSPA and HSPA is, but I think that by the time he got the point where he performs the Fourier Analysis very few people would still be watching. 😁
But that doesn't change the fact that T-Mobile lacks any credibility with their outright lies, regardless of the ITC's standing on the issue. As creative as they are at insulting their competition, I'd think they would be creative enough to market their alternate technology without lying.
It doesn't matter what you think is 4G or not. All that matters is what the group that determines these things thinks. I don't think Obama is really our president. But just because I think that doesn't make it true.
HSPA+ is often as fast as LTE.
First of all, T-mobile never had CDMA or EVDO service.
Secondly, AMPS is a first generation network. TDMA and GSM represent a second generation network, with GSM incorporating TDMA technology. UMTS, HSPA, and HSPA+ are all the same family of technology and constitute a third generation network.
So, you see by either actual number of networks, or by technical category of the network's generation, T-mobile simply only has a third generation network.
>>That is a lot of networks before LTE.
No, only three if you can count.
>>It doesn't matter what you think is 4G or not. All ...
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Lawyered. I have facts. You have nothing.
Yes I have seen HSPA+ go around 22mbps. That's pretty fast. Dare I say LTE fast.
What was your point again? How is T-Mobile (and other carriers) bullying around an international standards committee and lying to customers ethical?
Also, LTE fast and 4G fast are not the same thing. 22Mb/s may be as fast as so...
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No, I never said that. Infact, I clearly stated in several places that it was not, and also explicitly named the technologies that are. Reread my post.
>>And since the standards body who knows more about this then you could ever know declared HSPA+ and regular old LTE 4G then you don't have a leg to stand one.
Stop spinning the bullshit. We both know, based on the article that YOU linked, that the ITU caved because they didn't have the money to fight the mass disinformation campaigns being conducted by the marketing departments of the carriers. And even though they caved, they are still standing by the technical specification, but just allowing the carriers to say they have 4G anyway. But ...
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Zpike said:
>>But you said that regular old LTE is 4G.
No, I never said that. Infact, I clearly stated in several places that it was not, and also explicitly named the technologies that are. Reread my post.
LTE Advanced does reach 100mb/s and all that LTE equipment can and will eventually be upgraded. However, that's a moot point because LTE networks do actually represent a 4th generation buildout of a new network. So, in that sense they are 4G.
So you did say that it was 4G.
>>And since the standards body who knows more about this then you could ever know declared HSPA+ and regular old LTE 4G then you don't have a leg to stand one....
Stop spinning the bullshit.
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You frickin moron quit spinning what I said because I made it damn clear. I said that LTE constituted a 4G network because it was a 4th buildout of a new network, which HSPA+ is not. You then tried to make HSPA+ comparable to 4G by comparing it to the speeds of LTE, but I have already said that LTE does not meet the technical specification of 4G. So, by way of basic logic, HSPA+ can't be considered 4G just by merely being as fast as LTE. Because LTE fails that requirement as well. Youre grasping at straws.
>>Again the fact of the matter is what the ITU said. Its not a half truth. Its the facts.
No, it's a half truth because you aren't fully representing what the ITU said in your comments. You're only...
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