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Verizon: No fake 5G icon like AT&T
cnBeta 2019-01-09 11:33:15
https://www.toutiao.com/a6644335004010676744/
According to foreign media reports, Verizon said that they will not lie to customers on whether the phone can connect to 5G networks, and AT&T seems to have begun to do so. "We won't come up with an old phone and just change the 4 on the status bar to 5 by changing the software," Verizon Chief Technology Officer Kyle Malady wrote in the blog post.
This commitment comes at a time when AT&T is launching a 5G update, which has changed the "LTE" icon in some mobile phone corners to "5G E." One might think that a "5G E" network connection is the same as a "5G" network connection, but it is not. AT&T just disguised the faster part of its LTE network as 5G and tried to take the lead in the 5G marketing competition by flaunting it as "5G Evolution."
Obviously, T-Mobile doesn't like this marketing method. Neville Ray, the company's chief technology officer, pointed out that AT&T is "deceiving customers." Yesterday, the company joked that it would upgrade the iPhone to "9G", and it is very simple to do this, that is, put a sticky note with "9G" on it.
However, Verizon is not completely innocent in this regard. It was also misleading when it entered the 5G. Last year, Verizon boasted that it launched "the world's first commercial 5G service," but this is not the case. But in any case, the attitude that Verizon and T-Mobile are showing now is still a good sign. This shows that they will not participate in this kind of publicly misleading consumer marketing activities, but they cannot be guaranteed 100%.
cnBeta 2019-01-09 11:33:15
https://www.toutiao.com/a6644335004010676744/
According to foreign media reports, Verizon said that they will not lie to customers on whether the phone can connect to 5G networks, and AT&T seems to have begun to do so. "We won't come up with an old phone and just change the 4 on the status bar to 5 by changing the software," Verizon Chief Technology Officer Kyle Malady wrote in the blog post.
