If you're an AT&T Mobile customer, be VERY careful buying a new 5G phone!

AT&T is putting fake electronic network signal 5G labels on phones that are only 4G. They're justifying this because their 4G network has been upgraded and is faster than a typical 4G LTE network, whatever that means. They did the same shit with 3G phones by labeling them 4G before they'd rolled out 4G across the country.

If your phone display shows that you're connected to a "5Ge" (small caps E) network, you're not connected to a 5G network. AT&T is saying that 5G Evolution will be in over 400 markets by the end of the year, but it's not 5G: it's an upgraded 4G. Actual 5G tech will be in very few markets - it will take a couple of years to roll it out - and I think it will mainly be east coast, but don't quote me on that. And then you have to look at phone upgrades to use 5G.

So yet another great big marketing scam.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18151764/att-5g-evolution-logo-rollout-fake-network