I blame Sprint for starting this idiocy. Due to only a very small percentage of people knowing what 3G or 4G actually is, it was inevitable that the other carriers would have to follow suit and start calling their faster-than-the-3G-you're-used-to speeds 4G as well. What's really stupid about all this is that some of the not-actually-4G companies have the gall to call out competitor networks for doing the same thing they are.



In the end I suspect the most realistic solution will be for the ITU to reclassify what 4G is unless they want their standards to be totally meaningless. By the time any carrier actually has legit 4G they'll be forced to call it 5G or even 6G so the average consumer understands that it's faster...

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