A few weeks ago, the US mobile operator AT & T announced some changes ahead. One of them was the appearance on the phones of the "5G E" icon, with an E as Evolution. However, this is not 5G, just a 4G LTE network that uses including three-way aggregation, 256 QAM modulation and 4X4 MIMO.
This is a change that is important because customers think they have 5G and because other operators offer similar features without stamping them 5G. According to a recent test conducted by OpenSignal, this 5G E service would be even slightly slower than the 4G LTE sometimes offered by the competition.
T-Mobile and Verizon offer peak speeds of 29.5 Mbps and 29.9 Mbps, respectively, compared to only 28.8 Mbps for the AT & T 5G E. Only Sprint seems to lag behind with 20.4 Mbps. Operators had already expressed dissatisfaction with the decision to use the term 5G E, which could be disruptive. And this test gives them reason ...
This is a change that is important because customers think they have 5G and because other operators offer similar features without stamping them 5G. According to a recent test conducted by OpenSignal, this 5G E service would be even slightly slower than the 4G LTE sometimes offered by the competition.
T-Mobile and Verizon offer peak speeds of 29.5 Mbps and 29.9 Mbps, respectively, compared to only 28.8 Mbps for the AT & T 5G E. Only Sprint seems to lag behind with 20.4 Mbps. Operators had already expressed dissatisfaction with the decision to use the term 5G E, which could be disruptive. And this test gives them reason ...
