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You've probably been hearing the hype about lightning-fast 5G for years now. And while the new wireless networks still aren't ubiquitous in the United States, 5G is slowly cropping up in cities from ...

While carriers and manufacturers may promote their phones and services as 4G, the truth is that today’s technologies are still in 3G—maybe 3.9G. Driven by LTE-A, 4G will involve a bigger leap to ...

Being able to send and receive that much data so quickly opens new opportunities for augmented and virtual reality systems, as well as automation. For instance, self-driving cars could communicate ...

It has been over five years since 5G was introduced across the globe, and it's safe to say it has brought about major improvements both for personal and industrial use. With speeds that are ...

AT&T is scheduled Tuesday to turn off its 3G cellular network. T-Mobile is scheduled to turn its off on July 1, 2022, and Verizon is slated to follow suit on Dec. 31, 2022. So why are the ...

4G is being stalked by 5G Using more spectrum and advanced antennas, vendors and operators plan to increase 4G mobile speeds. But the key to increasing speeds as researchers look at future networks, ...

5G is here. Find out what it means for your smartphone and much, much more. Read now 3G offered the first taste of the transformative power of wireless data. Sure, none of us would want to return to ...

I'm sure that someone out there has run some sort of formal benchmarks, but I can say that the difference between 3G and LTE is easily noticed. Especially as almost everything becomes more media heavy ...

Posts on social media claim that 3G was introduced in 2003, the same year as the SARS outbreak, 4G was introduced in 2009, the same year as the swine flu outbreak, and that 5G was introduced in 2020, ...

Some Australians using 4G or 5G-compatible mobiles have been left without usable phone service after the 3G network shutdown. Telecommunication companies and regulators say they are doing what they ...