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Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile All Claim 'Largest 4G Network'
Apparently Everybody Wins.

With the 4G term now abused to include everything from carrier pigeon to cans and string, it's not too surprising to see AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all now simultaneously claiming they offer the nation's "largest 4G network." Verizon has the largest LTE deployment by a wide margin, and AT&T and T-Mobile are both of course including their HSPA services as "4G." AT&T was only the latest to join the fun, adding the "largest" proclamation to their marketing over the weekend.

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According to AT&T the carrier's competitors claim to cover around 200 million people with their respective 4G technologies, and AT&T says the company is "significantly ahead of them based on internal and third-party data."

That's quite a difference from 2010, when AT&T got mad at T-Mobile for considering HSPA+ to be a 4G technology. "I think that companies need to be careful that they're not misleading customers by labeling HSPA+ as a 4G technology," AT&T said in 2010 in response to the ads. "We aren't labeling those technologies as 4G," said the company.

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IPPlanMan
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IPPlanMan

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Is anyone really surprised?

Would you expect any less from a company that now offers "Unlimited Data" at speeds that intentionally render a device beyond useless for the primary purpose for which it was sold?

I present Exhibit A:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· aEQzTcW0


"Rethink Possible"?.... More like "Render Inoperable".