Originally Posted by
WIRunner
It has more to do with the fact when T-Mo US was rolling out the HSDPA+ network it was just as fast (if not faster) than most of the LTE networks that had been minimally deployed. It was leaps and bounds faster than what they had as a 3G network. It also helps when you have T-Mobile and can see when you're on a specific network. (GPRS, Edge, 3G, 4G, and LTE.)
Don't all operators show which network you are on? At least in Europe they show GPRS, Edge, 3G and 4G. But as for 4G being different from LTE, it isn't. Yes I can see that some operators have put some labels on it, but that itself doesn't differentiate from all the various different flavors of LTE. There's LTE Advanced, LTE-U, LTE-TDD and -FDD, etc.
And just wait, 5G is right around the corner!
