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When I worked at Alcatel-Lucent as an intern you learn that 1G,2G,3G,4G,5G are all marketing terms. What you want to pay attention to is the actual underlying
by zitterbewegung 9y ago
When I worked at Alcatel-Lucent as an intern you learn that 1G,2G,3G,4G,5G are all marketing terms.
What you want to pay attention to is the actual underlying technology and see if they are "Rebadging" or not. They use these terms to confuse people who buy phones. Similar to how NVIDIA, AMD and Intel will use new "chips" when they are rebadges. All of these companies have the same management systems in the same systems by Alcatel Lucent its just the big players can actually differentiate themselves a bit. Google Fi and others are MVMOs which basically buy excess network capacity and package it.
- crunchatized 9y agoThey're still real technical terms for describing underlying technology that have been appropriated as increasingly stretched marketing terms. It's almost like the euphemism treadmill. As laypeople hear the technical terms repeatedly in the news and associate it with meaning 'this is Good New Thing,' marketing departments will notice and slap them onto more and more stuff until the term loses its original value. Rinse, repeat.