Stephanie Vinge, a corporate communications manager with Sprint, today sprinkled a little trash talk on T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network using her Twitter account.
“A little #4G math: # of T-Mobile 4G phones: 0 (oh wait, they don’t have a 4G network yet) # of VZW 4G phones: 0. # of Sprint 4G phones: 2.”
The words, “open mouth, insert foot” come to mind, in this clear case of misinformation. This is strangely ironic, since the ITU, those fellas responsible for defining what 4G is, just declared LTE, WiMax and HSPA+ to be labeled as legitimate 4G technologies. But what do they know? They have only been around for 145 years. In addition, to further add insult to injury, a few tweets later she states that the ITU is just one “perspective.” Really? That’s like saying a particular law ruled by the Supreme Court is not valid because it’s just one perspective.
Furthermore, she states that T-Mobile doesn’t even have a 4G handset , let alone a 4G network. I guess she missed the press release for the launch of the T-Mobile G2 and the MyTouch 4G.
This will certainly be interesting to follow this upcoming year, as T-Mobile begins to roll out their 42 Mbit/s HSPA+ data speeds, in conjunction with Sprint’s WiMax expansion. In the meantime, as the war rages on planet 4G, we strongly urge that Stephanie read more tech blogs and follow @ITU_News on Twitter. And finally, in the words of Rodney King, ‘can’t we just all get along?”
[via intomobile]