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Official: 3G and 4G meaningless.

watty · 2010-12-22 14:44:53

It's Official. What experts already knew 3G and 4G are meaningless marketing terms. Expect "Broadband" to shortly become meaningless too world-wide as it already is in Ireland. Official: 3G and 4G meaningless. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/22/4g_itu/

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It's Official. What experts already knew
3G and 4G are meaningless marketing terms. Expect "Broadband" to shortly become meaningless too world-wide as it already is in Ireland.

Official: 3G and 4G meaningless. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/22/4g_itu/

While the separation between the first generation; analogue, and second generation; digital, networks is clearly defined, their descendants have a less radical evolution with a handful of technologies sitting uncomfortably between generations as engineers developed incremental progressions, and marketeers sought revolutionary claims.

Those marketeers sought so many revolutions they were forced to subdivide the generations, introducing "2.5G", "3.75G" and so forth, despite the terms having no meaning at all.

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