AT&T's Indigo network upgrades will bring 5G to Austin and Indianapolis in coming months | Android Central
400 Mbps is not only not revolutionary, it's barely better than what T-Mobile has now. Furthermore, their max theoretical speed is 1 Gbps. The problem is, that 1 Gbps is the speed of a true 4G network. AT&T isn't fully built out on 4G yet, they barely meet the minimum standards and have never maxed out. The media should be calling them out on this, because what they're actually doing here is pretending to build a 4G network and trying to call it 5G for marketing. This is familiar, much in the same way that HSPA and HSPA+ never were really 4G, yet they called them 4G anyways.
To clarify the distinction, an actual 4G covers a normal volume of usage with consistent speeds from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps, while 5G covers speeds from 1 Gbps and beyond until 6G is defined, then it too will have a cap.
400 Mbps is not only not revolutionary, it's barely better than what T-Mobile has now. Furthermore, their max theoretical speed is 1 Gbps. The problem is, that 1 Gbps is the speed of a true 4G network. AT&T isn't fully built out on 4G yet, they barely meet the minimum standards and have never maxed out. The media should be calling them out on this, because what they're actually doing here is pretending to build a 4G network and trying to call it 5G for marketing. This is familiar, much in the same way that HSPA and HSPA+ never were really 4G, yet they called them 4G anyways.
To clarify the distinction, an actual 4G covers a normal volume of usage with consistent speeds from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps, while 5G covers speeds from 1 Gbps and beyond until 6G is defined, then it too will have a cap.