LTE networks have become so expansive and reliable in the United States that it can be difficult to remember what life was like before 4G LTE. But try, if you will, to recall the ridiculousness that ...

There’s a new cellular network technology on the way, and the whole industry is banding together to upgrade from 4G LTE to 5G mmWave. The 5G upgrade will require new modem technologies, lots of new ...

With all the talk about 5G, it’s easy to forget we barely have true 4G yet. What we have now — 4G LTE — is a whole lot better than 3G, but does not reach the speed specifications set by the regulatory ...

Ever since AT&T started branding its fully-optimized 4G LTE services as “5G Evolution,” the carrier hasn’t done anything meaningful with the name, leaving it fallow and sounding hollow. But soon, if ...

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Sprint’s CTO released a statement yesterday, after two of their competitors had mocked AT&T updating some of its smartphones to show a “5G E” icon in place of the “4G LTE” icon in the status bar.

5G is a huge buzzword going into 2019, and AT&T is pulling out the big guns as of late. In December, AT&T confirmed that it would be replacing the 4G LTE icon on its Android phones with a misleading ...

If you have a brand new Android phone, you might wonder what the LTE or LTE+ icon is on the top of the status bar on your phone screen. In short, it refers to your phone establishing a data link with ...