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As usual, it's technical jargon used for marketting purpose. That's why they don't use it responsably, and that's why geeks complain without realizing the goal
by sametmax 8y ago
As usual, it's technical jargon used for marketting purpose. That's why they don't use it responsably, and that's why geeks complain without realizing the goal is not to be right, but to make money.
- blattimwind 8y agoBut aren't 4G, 5G etc. not actually marketing terms that on a technical level only imply some broad capabilities (e.g. possible download rate > X MBit/s), while the actual standards providing those are not called 4G/5G?
- pas 8y ago> Confusion has been caused by some mobile carriers who have launched products advertised as 4G but which according to some sources are pre-4G versions, commonly referred to as '3.9G', which do not follow the ITU-R defined principles for 4G standards, but today can be called 4G according to ITU-R. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G#IMT-Advanced_requirements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G#IMT-Advanced_requirements 4G is defined in an ITU paper basically. And telcos started to use it for networks that were pretty far from 4G. Then ITU simply said, that okay, sure, use that, because they don't care.
- pas 8y agoWell, complaining is not the problem, the problem is that usually people here preach to the choir. HN should seek out and submit high quality precisely communicated pages about the concrete instance of "news" that the fluffpages post. But instead all we get is the complaining.