The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G

Re:The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G by tesseract on Monday October 10, 2011 @02:11PM (#3095022)

Apple likes to call their products by the same name worldwide. Are there any countries other than the US where HSPA+ networks are advertised as 4G? And on the other hand, are there countries where advertising HSPA+ as 4G is prohibited?

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Re:The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G by ugh on Monday October 10, 2011 @04:48PM (#3095767)

I think both 3G and 4G are a lot less present in carriers’ marketing in Germany. And maybe I missed it but I haven’t seen a big marketing campaign for 4G in Germany. I wasn’t even aware how widely available it already is†.

Carriers in Germany seem to be a lot more willing to use standard names for their marketing, e.g. UMTS, HSDPA, LTE, probably mostly because all carriers are using the same standards. (No one uses CDMA in Germany.)

I also haven’t seen any carrier refer to something as 4G that’s not LTE.

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† http://www.t-mobile.de/funkversorgung/inland/ — http://www.vodafone.de/privat/hilfe-support/netzabdeckung.ht...

What I would like to know is why LTE is available in all those weird places with relatively low population densities and rarely in cities. What’s going on there?

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Re:The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G by iaskwhy on Monday October 10, 2011 @02:50PM (#3095194)

In at least some European countries 4G is everywhere.

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Re:The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G by dangrossman on Monday October 10, 2011 @03:43PM (#3095445)

That doesn't answer either question -- first you need to define what they're calling "4G" in those countries. Is it HSPA+? WiMax? LTE?

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Re:The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G by iaskwhy on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:39PM (#3095985)

True, sorry, I read it as something else.

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