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AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

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Re: AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

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Are there rules for enforcing (and by whom?) the term “5G”? Or is it like the word “natural” for health food?

4G was supposed to achieve 100mbit peaks and I have yet to see speeds even approaching this with 4G LTE. So if somebody is enforcing advertising rules they're doing a shit job...

Re: AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

#4

Are there rules for enforcing (and by whom?) the term “5G”? Or is it like the word “natural” for health food?

5GNR (3GPP release 15) is the official globally recognized standard for 5G. Guessing 3GPP has some loose enforcement but not sure.

http://www.3gpp.org/release-15

Re: AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

#5

Are there rules for enforcing (and by whom?) the term “5G”? Or is it like the word “natural” for health food?

4G was supposed to achieve 100mbit peaks and I have yet to see speeds even approaching this with 4G LTE. So if somebody is enforcing advertising rules they're doing a shit job...

This probably depends heavily on where you live, but I can easily get ~150 Mbps up and down on LTE, in Washington state.

Re: AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

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"All four major carriers have rolled out LTE-Advanced. But while Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile accurately call it 4G, AT&T calls it 5G E."

"AT&T's network name change may well trick consumers into thinking they're getting better service than a 4G operator, but they aren't. We already knew that 5G E has no technological advantage over LTE-Advanced, because they are the same thing with different names."

Doesn't that mean this, for all intents and purposes, isn't really the 5G we're all thinking of and that this is just massive click bait?

Re: AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

#7

Are there rules for enforcing (and by whom?) the term “5G”? Or is it like the word “natural” for health food?

4G was supposed to achieve 100mbit peaks and I have yet to see speeds even approaching this with 4G LTE. So if somebody is enforcing advertising rules they're doing a shit job...

Blame your carrier. I get 82Mbps in upload and 10Mbps in download. Can't complain for €6/month.

Re: AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

#8

Are there rules for enforcing (and by whom?) the term “5G”? Or is it like the word “natural” for health food?

4G was supposed to achieve 100mbit peaks and I have yet to see speeds even approaching this with 4G LTE. So if somebody is enforcing advertising rules they're doing a shit job...

I can easily get over 100Mbps on LTE, this is what I'm getting now: https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/4793874317

Re: AT&T’s “5G E” is slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds

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"All four major carriers have rolled out LTE-Advanced. But while Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile accurately call it 4G, AT&T calls it 5G E." "AT&T's network name change may well trick consumers into thinking they're getting better service than a 4G operator, but they aren't. We already knew that 5G E has no technological advantage over LTE-Advanced, because they are the same thing with different names." Doesn't that me…

It’s not clickbait. AT&T is pretending to have 5G when it doesn’t. This is worth reporting.
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