rying AT&T’s Fake 5G #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin after years of

using 4G 5g networks are just starting

to roll out and with that we should be

able to see propper gigabit class speeds

but if you own a flagship in the last

couple years you might have noticed

something strange

a 5ge logo so have you been using a 5g

phone this entire time without realizing

it

ya know like 4G before it 5g is not as

straightforward as it might seem

there are several competing 5g standards

being built out right now for example

here in LA you can sign up for Verizon's

5g home service this is using an early

version of 5g which according to Verizon

is good for up to 20 times the speed of

LTE and in the real world delivers about

300 megabits per second down although

theoretically it can go up to 900 and 40

megabits completely wirelessly that's

actually pretty good and it shows how 5g

can be used Delhi of course for your

phone and for your laptop and tablet but

also it can be used to completely

replace a standard home internet line so

putting aside for a second this isn't

true 5g just yet there is a ton of

potential here the final 5g spec calls

for a theoretical maximum of 20 gigabits

per second although realistically it's

going to be much closer to one gigabit

but that is still a huge huge bump over

what we have today

that brings us to five ge now this is

short for 5g evolution and it is what 18

T is calling 5g although spoiler alert

it's not 5g so to give you a better idea

of what 5g is we have a little bit of an

example so this is Pikachu and for this

reference will call them 5g as you can

see he's very cheery he's very happy all

good right well this is me me Q now on

the surface it looks very similar to

Pikachu except these really LTE with

some weird like drawings on his face

clearly not the same thing are you

following maybe I should explain this a

little bit better so if you take a look

at the AT&T; site they describe 5ge

as quote the first step on the road to

5g so it does support some additional

technologies that come with LTE advanced

such as 4x4 as well as some better

streaming and better compression but

generally speaking this is not 5g even

though they're slapping that 5g badge

all over it

if this all sounds familiar then you

right back when 18t was transitioning

from 3G to 4G they sent an update to

their phones to change the badge to say

for GE when it is actually still on 3G

yeah they're they're doing that one

again so based on all of this it seems

pretty clear to me that v GE is not

going to deliver a true next-gen

experience but to be fair I think it's

time to put it to the test so let's see

if we can actually track down a fight GE

phone and see how it actually performs I

was wondering do you guys have any view

that the 5g phones done yet I know I saw

they're like a couple of ads about it

the ones that are compatible Reena would

be the iPhone 10s and 10's max I was

reading something that the LG phones had

it as well

pretty sure like the v40 that's what I

had read as well the v40 had it gotcha

could basic I want to get a phone for my

dad and he's like he upgrades his phones

very rarely so I'll make sure he has

something v GE so you know he won't have

to upgrade again a couple years once

it's really common yeah I think um you

know what I'm gonna ask our LG rep to be

awesome thank you that was fun

so did not get a phone but we got some

interesting information they did confirm

that it does support 5g so I think the

main phone looking for is the v40

everything that I've read up until now

seems to show that that actually is one

of the phones that does show the 5g

badge

unfortunately this store didn't get many

V 40s and they shipped them all back

because they didn't sell them oh thank

you appreciate it hey I had a question

so I'm looking for a phone for my dad

and I know you guys are rolling out 5g

soon right which phones are flights you

capable is gonna be the first

which phones that we have or 5tq okay

that'd be great yeah yeah so it is 5ge

so it's not okay 5g so there's no phone

out that's true 5g yeah okay um so the

v40 does support the 5ge

also the SI the s9 is do support 5ge but

it's not when you consider true 5g

what's the difference it's faster than

4G it's in between what 5g is gonna be

so it there's no actual device of actual

5g okay gotcha it's 5ge capable which is

what they're releasing now which are all

the samsung s nines okay the LG b 40

okay that's it okay do you have any of

the equity you have the V 40s so we have

an LG v 40 that supports full 5 GE at

least I hope it does now I have to put a

sim card in here and hope that uh 5g

shows up and I can actually test to see

if it's any good or whether I just spent

nine hundred and fifty dollars on the

phone that uh won't work so it is time

to put 18 T's 5g network to the test

so the first bottleneck is that we

actually might not have 5 GE service

here at the office I'm hopeful that we

will but they don't know exactly have a

whole lot of information about it so I'm

gonna put a sim card in with actual data

all right so it shows we're on ATT on

LTE which is the correct thing because

we should be on LTE but I want to see if

this actually will show us five GE this

v40 does have an update released on

January 4th Oh excellent here we go

what's new 5g evolution indicators

support added okay so there is an update

for the phone that specifically changes

the indicator to 5g evolution now the

question is why doesn't want to download

so we got the phone up to date but

fortunately it still shows 4G LTE now

this should theoretically show 5g the

main issue is that there's not 5g

service here at the office so the next

step is to track down 5g so we actually

can test to see even though it's

probably going to be the same this isn't

going to be a definitive test but all I

want to know is this does 5ge make any

difference whatsoever so after taking a

closer look at the five GE coverage

areas one of the major spots that they

do have

is Los Angeles so we're here in

Hollywood to see exactly whether or not

this is going to work 0:05 GE we got it

I actually legitimately did not think

that was gonna work so it's really

interesting is if you look at the actual

network page what you'll see is even

though it says five GE it still says LTE

here because that's what it really is I

guess the first test is just to see how

fast it is so four point six down and

sixteen up hardly a gigabit like they

had promised now on the other side I

have the iPhone 10 R and this is a phone

which actually is listed on AT&T; site as

5g compatible but if you take a look I

have four bars of LTE not 5g it's the

same thing well let's see if there's

actually any difference oh are you

trying to tell me that by G is slower to

be clear these phones are both on AT&T;

there's no difference in any way except

that this one is like ten times faster

on the download twenty-nine thirty one

thirty five are these settings the same

are we gonna try like another site or

something so because that seems very

suspicious I'm going to try the standard

Google speed test and see what we get

all right where we got oh there we go

okay that makes a lot more sense we're

seeing way faster speeds on 5ge

which makes sense if you think about it

the 10r has a two by two LTE antenna

versus the four by four antenna on the

v40 okay let's do one more time ready

set

there we go yeah it's consistently

pulling ahead this time actually buy a

lot more so the iPhone still does have a

little bit of an advantage on the upload

but I mean the download is a big

difference 5g is delivering almost

double the speed now whether or not

that's worthy of the 5g badge not so

sure I mean realistically the goal for

5g proper 5g is over ten times the speed

so the fact this a little bit faster

than LTE it makes sense

so what did we learn

5ge is just another name for

lte-advanced and while it is faster you

shouldn't go drop everything to buy a 5

g e enabled phone Tru Phi G is right

around the corner