Verizon Wireless Launching LTE in 38 Markets on December 5
Yet again, the buzz word. 4G! Not impressed
trenen said:
It IS 4G. This is the 4th generation of technology in the states. And seriously...100 on a cellular network? 5-12 is what you get on hard-line services! I think that's a pretty damn good number for a CELLULAR NETWORK. You guys are insane and will never be please with anything I feel.
The MINIMUM benchmark for 4G service is 100 Mbps for wireless devices while in motion and 1000 Mbps for a stationary wireless device.
No one comes even close, and it's likely that no one ever will.
The bar for 4G is too high and unrealistic. The standards should be a 10x to 20x performance increase over 3G rather than 100x to 250x as they stand now. However, that does not give Sprint, T-mobile o...
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Sprint is not trying to redefine the term 4G they were using the term long before the ITU finally decided to get off there A$$ and make one. But after the ITU define the term tmobile and verizon still decided to go ahead and mislead customers and tell complete lies by marketing there networks as 4g. ๐ Knowing the actually dont have 4g but 3.9g tmobile and verizon are still lying and calling there networks 4g. ๐คจ But the fact is Sprint has and still is using 4g technology and so is verizon. ๐ Tmobile is not they are using a 3g tech and marketing it as 4g. โน๏ธ Have u no shame teen-mobile? Smh. Sprint coined the term and they had every r...
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And from what I can discern from your confusing emoticon-laden paragraph, are you saying it's OK for Sprint to use the term "4G" because they "coined" it before the ITU decided the technical specification for 4G, and that Verizon and T-Mobile decided "to go ahead and mislead customers" with their 4G claims?
So as long as I get in there before someone makes a decision on a technical specification, I'm ok?
Or how about this. Verizon's been talking 4G for three years, since they announced LTE in 2007, branded as 4G. Does that count?
Or maybe, by ITU standards, everyone is wrong, regardless of when they started using the term "4G?"
You completely missed my point but that doesn't surprise me. Sprint was using the term 4g first and for a a long time before the average Joe even knew what 4g meant and now that Sprints marketing its finally starting to pay off tmobile and verizon wanna piggy back on Sprint's Success.
Its obvious that tmobile is riding Sprint success with the Evo and Epic 4g with calling there new my touch a 4g phone and pumping out that...
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Sprint is not trying to redefine the term 4G they were using the term long before the ITU finally decided to get off there A$$ and make one. But after the ITU define the term tmobile and verizon still decided to go ahead and mislead customers and tell complete lies by marketing there networks as 4g. Knowing the actually dont have 4g but 3.9g tmobile and verizon are still lying and calling there networks 4g. But the fact is Sprint has and still is using 4g technology and so is verizon. Tmobile is not they are using a 3g tech and marketing it as 4g. Have u no shame teen-mobile? Smh. Sprint coined the term and they had every right to they had a 4g network in place first making them the nownetwork. Every...
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CellStudent said:...
The MINIMUM benchmark for 4G service is 100 Mbps for wireless devices while in motion and 1000 Mbps for a stationary wireless device.
No one comes even close, and it's likely that no one ever will.
The bar for 4G is too high and unrealistic. The standards should be a 10x to 20x performance increase over 3G rather than 100x to 250x as they stand now. However, that does not give Sprint, T-mobile or Verizon the flexibility to redefine the terminology.
The ITU engineers comprise the only organization which can change that definition, not T-mobile's Chief Marketing Officer or anyone else.
If I had my way, 4G would be defined at 20+ Mbps downlinks with 5+ Mbps uplinks and better than
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None of the new networks the carriers are rollin...
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Using the term "4G" isn't necessarily false advertising, in the traditional sense, because 99% of consumers won't know the technical specification of what it means to be 4G, or anything else.
In 1993, the FDA had to create labeling guidelines to reel in the food industry. People were looking for "lite" foods. Food manufacturers could put "lite" on their label and then claim it's because the consistency is lite, n...
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