Comments on: Will the Real 4G Please Stand Up?

By: The Real 4G Wireless Networks Will Arrive in 2013 : Broadband News and Analysis «

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:30:50 +0000

[...] consumers don’t care what constitutes real 4G and since it backtracked on its ambitious standards, the International Telecommunications Union is [...]

By: 10 Things You Need To Know about LTE-Advanced: Broadband News and Analysis «

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:52:24 +0000

[...] to speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. This is fab, but LTE-Advanced, which would actually be an acceptable 4G wireless standard under the original ITU definition of 4G, has far more features than just speed. Here are 10 things you need to know about this emerging [...]

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(Less Than) A Month In The Life of Tech: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:16:49 +0000

[...] the phone companies, especially the mobile carriers continue to lie. Their blatant white lies – especially around the 4G are just getting bolder and bolder. Shame on FCC and FTC for not doing anything about the confusion [...]

By: Consumers Not Quite Clear On What 4G Means: Tech News and Analysis «

Consumers Not Quite Clear On What 4G Means: Tech News and Analysis « — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:27:37 +0000

[...] fact is 4G has been a marketing buzz word that has been bandied about increasingly with little regard to what 4G was originally designed to [...]

By: AT&T Works To Catch Up on LTE and Abuses the Term 4G: Tech News and Analysis «

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:45:02 +0000

[...] a bit of marketing mumbo jumbo it had tweaked T-Mobile for last year. See our perspective on the 4G marketing hype here. AT&T said it has upgraded its network almost entirely to HSPA+ and is now in the process of [...]

By: Los puntos sobre las ges: 4G es LTE | CMT Blog

Los puntos sobre las ges: 4G es LTE | CMT Blog — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:20:41 +0000

[...] de 100 Mbps para aplicaciones móviles y de 1 Gbps para redes fijas. Para alcanzar tales cifras, los operadores van a necesitar de 5 a 10 veces más del espectro que la mayoría están usando aho…. El 4G real, además, requerirá nuevas y más antenas. En España los operadores móviles [...]

By: Kevin G.

Kevin G. — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:59:04 +0000

@Steve Crowley – IMT-2000 defined the set of standards for 3G, and IMT-Advanced does the same for 4G. Perhaps this October 2009 press release for the IMT-Advanced standards process (before the marketing hype had begun in mid-2010) would offer better “evidence” by virtue of saying 4G in parentheses. http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2009/48.html

Either way, the public will never care, and the cat left the bag without penalty.

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Mobile Hotspots Hit the $500M Big-Time: Mobile « — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:32:39 +0000

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By: Ian S

Ian S — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:05:48 +0000

Why not just accept that we’ve lost the battle to define 4G standards to the marketing department, ignore the 3.XG/FauxG networks, and just label as 5G whatever ITU’s definition of 4G. Then any 5G, which would really be 4G, networks will have to meet those standards when the time comes to move on from 4G. At least you’d be ahead of the marketing departments. So what if it’s a sleight of hand? Nobody would really care, and we could all get on with it.

By: Steve Crowley

Steve Crowley — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:54:44 +0000

I go along with the ITU view, and the thrust of your column. There is, however, no true definition of 4G. There is no real 4G. There is only the ITU view of 4G. No one owns the term, thus it’s whatever you want. The link you provide for the true definition does not mention 4G once. The ITU fielded 6 candidates for IMT-Advanced, not for 4G.

I explain my thoughts further in this blog post:

http://bit.ly/c6ce1Y