{"id":92363,"date":"2019-04-22T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T23:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/04\/22\/sprint-att-reach-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-rebranding-4g-as-5g-e"},"modified":"2019-04-22T23:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T23:27:51","slug":"sprint-att-reach-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-rebranding-4g-as-5g-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/sprint-att-reach-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-rebranding-4g-as-5g-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint, AT&T reach settlement in lawsuit over rebranding 4G as ‘5G E’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Roger Fingas<\/a>
Monday, April 22, 2019, 04:27 pm PT (07:27 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n

A settlement has emerged in Sprint’s lawsuit against AT&T, which accused the rival carrier of “blatantly misleading consumers” with its use of the term “5G E” to market high-speed 4G connections.
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“We have amicably settled this matter,” an AT&T spokesperson explained<\/a> to the Dallas Business Journal<\/em>. The exact terms of the agreement haven’t been made public.<\/p>\n

AT&T will, however, get to keep using “5G E,” according to other Journal<\/em> sources. If true, that would suggest Sprint was compensated or simply decided to drop legal action.<\/p>\n

AT&T first began using “5G E”<\/a> around early January, for instance showing the label on connected iPhones. That drew an outcry not just from Sprint but T-Mobile and Verizon, all of which have held off on the 5G label outside of authentic networks.<\/p>\n

U.S. 5G is still in its earliest phases. Verizon has marginal coverage in Chicago and Minneapolis, and while AT&T did launch real 5G in December, that’s only in the form of a portable hotspot \u2014 phone support is still in progress.<\/p>\n

iPhones aren’t expected to include 5G modems until 2020<\/a>. That may be a result the now-ended Apple v. Qualcomm battle, as well as slow development by Intel. Indeed Intel dropped out of the 5G race<\/a> shortly after the Qualcomm settlement.<\/p>\n

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