5G questions

[joeldf]

That's not a little trick it's an outright anti- consumer lie.... and something that should be legally addressed. :-[

Well... kinda...

It was the National Advertising Review Board that has forced AT&T to stop advertising "5G-Evolution", or specifically marketing it.

It hasn't stopped them from still showing the " 5G-E" network icon, however.

While still technically LTE, it is a different variation using 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM on those bands. It is supposed to be faster LTE, but in my town, when I see my S9 show 5G-E, a barely get faster speeds than I get when connected to a straight 4G-LTE tower, most of the time it's slower.

I've had speeds up to 160 Mbps on 4G-LTE - but, only in certain parts of town (where my house was in particular, until I moved a year and a half ago). I've yet to see speeds more than 40 Mbps on 5G-E.

 

[RapidTurtle]

I see I'm late to the party but I'm wondering if RapidTurtle had 5G or 5GE? I'm not sure if they're doing this on the actual 5G phones but I was just reading an post about an S10 on AT&T showing 5G and it turned out that AT&T is rebranding their 4G LTE to this 5GE. To kind of verify this story I went online and found this article that talks about it... https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...m/guide/5ge/&usg=AOvVaw1HmRUn3sqsFbPcM-zGCLp8

I could very easily see where something like this could might get past someone, especially if they have a 5G device and didn't know about this little trick AT&T was using.

I'm quite sure it was regular 5G, but can't be completely sure. It was also in areas that were 50 miles apart. The phone was pretty much always showing 5G. On my way to work, I use my phone on android auto for radio, and the S20 would cut out several times, where my S9+ never does. I loved the S20, but can't stand connection issues. It's one of the reasons that I pay a premium for AT&T. Verizon, Sprint, and Tmobile are all terrible at my work place, and AT&T has always been awesome there.

Those of you who are having problems also, please keep this thread updated. I really liked the phone, but if I were to get another, I'd probably go with the plus model, but obviously not with the connection issues.

 

[DrComputer]

I live in Los Angeles and have had my AT&T S20+ since it was released back in March. It was working great until about a month ago when it got the July update and now it is horrible on the cell network. Los Angeles is a "5G" region and the phone always shows 5G but most of the time now it will show full bars and have no data service. If I turn on and off airplane mode it will sometimes work great for a few minutes and then revert back to very poor cell data service. Luckily during this pandemic, I've been working from home most often and when the phone is on wifi it works fine. I really hope AT&T fixes their problem as they did something on their network over the past two months to make a really good phone work horribly. I guess I'll call support and complain (expecting them to do nothing) but at least it will be another logged complaint about data service with the S20+ on their network.

 

[RapidTurtle]

Hopefully it's just them working on the network. I feel your pain with calling them. The phone I returned still shows I owe on it, so I have called and chatted a few times, being assured each time that within 24 hrs, it will be fixed. It's still not fixed.

 

[RapidTurtle]

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