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It was an upgrade to 3G UMTS, the long-term evolution for the third generation as a stopgap to delaying 4G development. The industry then gave up on the 4G prop
by numpad0 4y ago
It was an upgrade to 3G UMTS, the long-term evolution for the third generation as a stopgap to delaying 4G development. The industry then gave up on the 4G proper and rebadged 3G/3.5G/3.9G LTE upgrade into LTE/4G LTE, and moved leftover elements onto 5G and 6G.
It’s kind of repeating with 5G NSA(Non-Standalone)/5G SA(Standalone)/5G mmWave branding, it seems the marketing parts of telecommunication industry always wants to rebadge backported technology as the mainstream next generation, and engineering divisions wants to move onto one generation ahead.