Different standards
—T-Mobile uses a wireless standard called HSPA+, which the company is advertising as 4G.
—Verizon Wireless is using a technology called Long-Term Evolution, widely seen as the faster standard, to deliver its 4G network.
— T-Mobile said Thursday that it would be able to double the speed of its HSPA+ network this year through software enhancements.
— AT&T confuses things even more, by deciding to start this year with an HSPA+ roll-out before eventually upgrading to an LTE standard similar to Verizon's by year end. They'll call the network 4G the whole way through.
—Sprint uses another standard yet for its 4G network called WiMax.
To complicate things even further, if you were to follow the initial 4G standard set by the International Telecommunication Union, none of these networks would be worthy of the 4G moniker.
Faced with an entire slate of wireless carriers advertising these LTE and HSPA networks as 4G, the ITU eventually caved.
I LOL'd at this. so try use it in S.A. and all the tech savvy people gun you down.
Use it in America and all the blithering idiots don't actually know what it's about. Hahaha. HSPA+, that's it?
