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 ...

If you’ve seen or heard an ad about a cell phone or wireless plan lately, you may have noticed that a lot of new buzzwords are being thrown around. Words like 4G, LTE, and WiMax seem to have replaced ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since 2019, U.S. mobile carriers have allocated tremendous resources to enable 5G coverage ...

If you have a brand new Android phone, you might wonder what the LTE or LTE+ icon is on the top of the status bar on your phone screen. In short, it refers to your phone establishing a data link with ...

Samsung's not one to shy away from releasing zillions of different versions of essentially the same phone, but its two latest models are intriguing in one specific way. The Galaxy S4 and S4 Mini are ...

Remember when 3G was the future of wireless data? It’s not even universally available in the U.S. yet, and the race is already well underway to replace it. WiMAX, the 4G network technology that counts ...

LTE Advanced is the next major step in the evolution of our LTE networks. It’s a new network technology that’s expected to both help band-aid the massive increases in mobile data demand, and deliver ...

Last month, I pitted Sprint’s WiMax-based fourth-generation (4G) network against its third-generation (3G) network in a series of real-world tests around the New York metropolitan area. My goal was to ...