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Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds (www.pcworld.com)
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Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds::Comcast says Xfinity offers 10G home internet, but the term "10G" is hazy and potentially misleading—especially because it has no relation to 5G for cell phones.

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[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Marketers kind of backed themselves into a corner when they named 4G LTE. It was supposed to be an intermediate step between 3G and 4G, but when they rolled out actual 4G, people thought going from "4G LTE" to "4G" sounded like a downgrade, so they called 4G proper "5G" at around the same time actual 5G was rolling out, creating a massive clusterfuck.