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AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon

posted by takyon on Wednesday January 09 2019, @09:35AM   
from the marketing-rEvolution dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

AT&T misleads customers by updating phones with fake 5G icon

AT&T has updated three smartphones from Samsung and LG to make them show 5G connectivity logos, even though none of them are capable of connecting to 5G networks.

Now, when the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, LG V30, or LG V40 are connected to portions of AT&T's LTE network that have received some speed-boosting updates, they'll show an icon that says "5G E" instead of "LTE."

That "E" in the "5G" logo is supposed to tip you off that this isn't real 5G — just some marketing nonsense. But there's no way of knowing that just from looking at the logo. The "E" is smaller than the rest of the icon. And even if you do learn that "5G E" stands for "5G Evolution," it isn't immediately clear what that means.

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• bye bye wifi (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:16PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:16PM (#784132)

  5G isa gonna make life miserable for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz wifi users.
  ofc it can co exists but if it cant you can guess what the (l)user is gonna chose/support...
  insert waving-goodbye-with-a-tear emoticon and middle finger

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