ITU Rules That WiMax, LTE Don't Qualify As 4G 137
GMGruman writes "It's official: All those ads and vendor claims about 4G services being offered today or being right around the corner are fiction. The international standards body ITU has ruled that Clearwire's WiMax network and the LTE systems that Verizon and others are just starting to roll out are not in fact 4G services. Oops."
HOLY SHIT! HOLY HOLY SHIT! NO! NO NO NO! (Score:1, Funny)
HOLY SHIT! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! Some marketing drones who don't understand the technologies they're pushing have made a mistake and mislabeled them while attempting to make them sound better than they are. THIS CANNOT BE!
What's in a name ? (Score:5, Funny)
More than 3 and not as much as 4? (Score:3, Funny)
Some marketing drones who don't understand the technologies they're pushing have made a mistake and mislabeled them while attempting to make them sound better than they are.
I'm sure they could come up with some new advertising slogan... Lessee there was the old standard, 3G, and we're so much better than THAT. But, we cannot say we meet the new standard, 4G. What we need is something that's better than 3... I've got it!
Get your piece of the Pi! 3.14159G
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Ya, it'll never work; just Pi in the sky.
Re:First large-scale LTE in the world? (Score:3, Funny)
That's where the Large-Scale comes in. Compared to the land area of the US (i.e. Verizon's planned roll-out), they're what we would call "test markets."
Re:First large-scale LTE in the world? (Score:3, Funny)
>>>"...to launch the world's* first large-scale LTE network later this year."
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>>>Ahem... Stockholm and Oslo already did that while back.
You missed the footnote: * (where "world" is defined as any territory equal or larger than the US). So that would exclude all the EU Member States/Cities. See how dishonest corporations are?
Re:What's in a name ? (Score:1, Funny)
ironically, 11G (base2) == 3G(base10).
The Great Thing About Standards . . . (Score:4, Funny)