{"id":49973,"date":"2012-05-14T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49973"},"modified":"2012-05-15T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:59:58","slug":"ipad-with-lte-drops-4g-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/49973-ipad-with-lte-drops-4g-name.html","title":{"rendered":"iPad with LTE drops &#8220;4G&#8221; name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has dropped \u201c4G\u201d from the name of its new iPads that support <a title=\"Long Term Evolution (LTE) \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/367212-Long-term-Evolution-(LTE)\">Long Term Evolution (LTE)<\/a> networks, this after the use of the term landed it in hot water in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>An iPad 3 with support for mobile broadband now bears the name \u201c<a title=\"Wi-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289151-Wi-Fi\">Wi-Fi<\/a> + Cellular\u201d with the product description explaining that the device can connect to certain \u201c4G LTE\u201d networks.<\/p>\n<p>Apple hasn\u2019t officially commented on the name change and a spokesperson for official Apple distributor in South Africa, <a title=\"Core Group\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306215-Core-Group\">Core Group<\/a>, told MyBroadband that they haven\u2019t received any official communication detailing a name change for the region.<\/p>\n<p>Core explained that it has taken steps to ensure that customers are informed that the LTE features of the iPad 3 won\u2019t work in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Store staff are trained to tell customers about the lack of LTE in South Africa, Core said, adding that it also has disclaimers in all of its marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of commercial LTE networks in South Africa, the iPad 3\u2019s specifications do allow it to connect to all our 3G networks.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"iPad 3 box should warn about 4G\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/48528-ipad-3-box-should-warn-about-4g.html\"><strong>iPad 3 box should warn about 4G<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple misleading consumers with \u201c4G\u201d iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/46548-apple-misleading-consumers-with-4g-ipad.html\"><strong>Apple misleading consumers with \u201c4G\u201d iPad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LTE \u201c4G\u201d and the iPad 3\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/45690-lte-4g-and-the-ipad-3.html\"><strong>LTE \u201c4G\u201d and the iPad 3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wi-Fi + 4G iPads get a name change, but not in SA just yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":48530,"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":[29],"tags":[2542,35,2438,11641,2490],"class_list":["post-49973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-4g","tag-headline","tag-ipad-3","tag-ipad-name-change","tag-lte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49973"}],"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=49973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49975,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49973\/revisions\/49975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}