No matter how much
T-Mobile wants to pretend, HSPA+ is not on the same upload / download pay grade as
LTE and
WiMAX. Still, that isn't stopping the company from calling its new technology rollout "4G speeds," much to the dismay of another
major HSPA+ supporter, AT&T. Cue Ma Bell spokesman Seth Bloom, who recently told
Fierce Wireless, "I think that companies need to be careful that they're not misleading customers by labeling HSPA+ as a 4G technology." Of course, AT&T itself is rolling out that technology as an intermediate step between current 3G and LTE, and we know they want to reserve the 4G nomenclature for the
latter's unveiling. Hey guys, can we just label it 3.95G and call it day?
