{"id":578363,"date":"2010-05-25T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/25\/at-t-t-mobile-is-misleading-customers-by-labeling-hspa+-as-4g\/"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:45:00","slug":"att-t-mobile-is-misleading-customers-by-labeling-hspa-as-4g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578363","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T: T-Mobile is misleading customers by labeling HSPA+ as 4G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/5\/106430-attlogo.jpg\" alt=\"AT&amp;T logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a recent press release<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/24\/t-mobile-expands-hspa+-network-to-northeast-u-s\/\" >announcing<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>its HSPA+ expansions, T-Mobile referred to their upgrades as &#8220;4G speeds&#8221; several times, which may lead many to believe that what T-Mobile is rolling out is actual 4G rather than upgraded 3G. &nbsp;AT&amp;T has spoken out against T-Mobile&#8217;s announcement, responding by saying that T-Mobile needs to &#8220;be careful that they&#8217;re not misleading customers by labeling HSPA+ as a 4G technology.&#8221; &nbsp;AT&amp;T, who is planning to upgrade their own network to similar HSPA+ speeds before making the jump to LTE\/4G, said that they are not labeling the upgrade as 4G, so T-Mobile shouldn&#8217;t either. &nbsp;While T-Mobile isn&#8217;t technically saying that their network expansion is 4G, their wording could lead many to believe that it is since most people probably don&#8217;t really know what 4G actually is. &nbsp;What are your thoughts on this situation? &nbsp;Share them with us!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Via<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5547461\/att-says-t+mobile-is-misleading-customers-by-suggesting-hspa%252B-is-4g\" >Gizmodo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cWjtY8FbBLHjH1vlEF19i2yohko\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cWjtY8FbBLHjH1vlEF19i2yohko\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cWjtY8FbBLHjH1vlEF19i2yohko\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cWjtY8FbBLHjH1vlEF19i2yohko\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/joH8bVMCPP4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent press release&nbsp;announcing&nbsp;its HSPA+ expansions, T-Mobile referred to their upgrades as &#8220;4G speeds&#8221; several times, which may lead many to believe that what T-Mobile is rolling out is actual 4G rather than upgraded 3G. &nbsp;AT&amp;T has spoken out against T-Mobile&#8217;s announcement, responding by saying that T-Mobile needs to &#8220;be careful that they&#8217;re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}