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Old Apr 27, 2016 | 12:13 pm
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Originally Posted by javabytes
I have an AT&T phone. It will display 4G or LTE at different times. 4G for AT&T indicates HSPA+, which is fundamentally different from LTE. So it is not the same thing. This despite the fact that 4G is a completely meaningless term now that it's been so thoroughly abused by marketers.
OK, maybe it means something with AT&T. But it's just a string of characters that the operator programs into their RAN. In Europe everywhere I've been it just says 4G no matter what type of 4G it is. And on VZ here it says LTE.
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