{"id":17234,"date":"2019-01-07T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17234"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:08:42","slug":"att-misleads-customers-by-updating-phones-with-fake-5g-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17234","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T misleads customers by updating phones with fake 5G icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To win the 5G marketing wars, AT&amp;T has decided to brand portions of its LTE network as \u201c5G Evolution.\u201d These portions of AT&amp;T\u2019s network have received speed-boosting upgrades and should be faster than typical LTE, but AT&amp;T isn\u2019t doing anything that other carriers haven\u2019t already implemented. And these are still, by definition, LTE technologies \u2014 not 5G ones. So this is exclusively about marketing, not about improving your phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/1\/7\/18172355\/att-fake-5g-logo-rolling-out-samsung-lg\">AT&amp;T misleads customers by updating phones with fake 5G icon &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To win the 5G marketing wars, AT&amp;T has decided to brand portions of its LTE network as \u201c5G Evolution.\u201d These portions of AT&amp;T\u2019s network have received speed-boosting upgrades and should be faster than typical LTE, but AT&amp;T isn\u2019t doing anything &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[546,633,940],"class_list":["post-17234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-lte","tag-market-strategy","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17235,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234\/revisions\/17235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}