US network operator AT&T has announced the launch of \u201c5G Evolution\u201d in Texas, with plans to launch in 20 metros by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n
Its use of the 5G term in marketing material has been heavily criticised by The Verge<\/a><\/strong>, Android Police<\/a><\/strong>, and Gizmodo<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>– with Android Police calling it “complete bullshit”.<\/p>\n AT&T defended its use of the term 5G in a press release, stating: \u201cWe continue to lay the foundation for our evolution to 5G while the 5G standards are being finalised.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Android Police and Gizmodo remained unconvinced.<\/p>\n According to AT&T, it\u2019s \u201cevolution to 5G\u201d includes upgrades like carrier aggregation, 4×4 MIMO, and 256 QAM.<\/p>\n This is complete nonsense.<\/p>\n As highlighted by multiple reports, all of the upgrades mentioned above are included in the LTE-Advanced specification, which the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the 3GPP have approved as a 4G technology.<\/p>\n Furthermore, other operators have already implemented the upgrades to their networks, which, at worst, are being marketed as \u201c4G+\u201d.<\/p>\n The main reason AT&T\u2019s claims are being criticised, though, is that no standards<\/strong><\/a> have been evaluated as qualifying as 5G.<\/p>\n The standard defining 5G is only expected to be authorised in 2020.<\/p>\n A workshop will likely be held later this year to complete technical performance specifications, determine an evaluation method and criteria, and design a format of submission.<\/p>\n Potential standards may then be submitted with a deadline, expected to be set for mid-2019.<\/p>\n Once the deadline has passed, standards will be evaluated and those that succeed will be known as IMT-2020, or 5G.<\/p>\n For 5G, the requirements are predicted to\u00a0be as follows:<\/p>\n We\u2019ve said it before and we\u2019ll say it again – don\u2019t believe the hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":208480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38775,19420,42858,2458,35,5948],"class_list":["post-208478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-3rd-generation-partnership-project-3gpp","tag-5g","tag-5g-evolution","tag-att","tag-headline","tag-international-telecommunication-union-itu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208548,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208478\/revisions\/208548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}No 5G standard<\/h3>\n
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Now read: Don\u2019t believe the 5G hype<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"