Verizon took a potshot at AT&T during all of the CES 2019 excitement by saying that they won't be misleading customers with fake 5G icons on their phones. The comment comes after AT&T updated a handful of Android smartphones to sport a 5G E icon if the phones were using some of AT&T's faster 4G LTE networks, despite those phones not at all supporting real 5G.
That's a good move by Verizon, even though the carrier has been sort of misleading about their own 5G network up to this point. They've deployed 5G networks that aren't truly wireless, and they even used their own 5G standard for it instead of the global standard, so there's still plenty to actually complain about from Big Red.
Much like 4G LTE we're probably going to see some growing pains and nasty marketing from the big carriers, regardless of whether we have three or four of them.
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via: The Verge
