AT&T is being sued by Sprint over false “5G E” advertisement

The race too the top of the 5G ladder has landed AT&T in some legal hot water. Sprint filed a lawsuit against AT&T claiming they rebranded there 4G service into “5G Evolution” with out providing 5G E speeds.

AT&T has employed numerous deceptive tactics to mislead consumers into believing that it currently offers a coveted and highly anticipated fifth generation wireless network, known as 5G. What AT&T touts as 5G, however, is nothing more than an enhanced fourth generation Long Term Evolution wireless service, known as 4G LTE Advanced, which is offered by all other major wireless carriers.

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AT&T vehemently denies these claims. AT&T doesn’t have any phone with hardware capable of supporting 5G mmWave technology. This is a misleading and this will mislead customers into thinking AT&T cellular network is far more superior than its competitors but it’s simply not. AT&T claims 5G E applies to areas that have carrier aggregation, 4×4 MIMO technology and 256 QAM. But that’s 4G LTE technology already deployed by carriers like Verizon,T-Mobile and Sprint and there network indicators still display either (4G) or (4G-LTE). At&T simply pushed a software update that changed the network indicator to there supposedly new advance and lightning fast “5G Evolution” network.

AT&T model phone displaying rebranded network indicator

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So far T-Mobile and Verizon have not followed suit with sprint, but were sure there keeping a close eye on how this plays out till the end.

Verizon plans to deploy a standards-based 5G mobile service in more than 30 US cities in the first half of 2019. There new network will be powered by millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum that is true 5G standard. The service will be branded ‘5G Ultra Wideband’,