<story><title>AT&amp;T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones</title><url>https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/at-t-to-begin-upgrading-existing-lte-phones-to-5g-e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TomMckenny</author><text>I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts &amp;quot;8=16&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;12=32&amp;quot; etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a strange comfortable flexibility we have developed around truth.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost as if &amp;quot;freedom of speech&amp;quot; means you can massage the truth if it increase sales but god forbid you make a drawing of 90 year old cartoon mouse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>Nothing new there - even in our industry, specifically computer data storage.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s been forever since backup tape manufacturers started describing their tape capacity assuming constant 2:1 compression ratios - even though that&amp;#x27;s a bad assumption to make as compression ratios wary wildly based on the original data. I think this started happening in the mid-1990s when tape drives had built-in hardware compression to save the host CPU from doing it in software?&lt;p&gt;And of course, the canonical example of HDD vendors using &amp;quot;megabyte == 1000 kilobytes&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Of course this results in a Nash equilibrium because vendors can&amp;#x27;t risk being honest if everyone else is dishonest&amp;#x2F;misleading because there&amp;#x27;s simply too many ignorant purchasers in the market - which is the exact same problem JC Penny had.&lt;p&gt;At least AT&amp;amp;T is using &amp;quot;5Ge&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;5G&amp;quot; unlike they did with HSPA+ and &amp;quot;4G&amp;quot;, and I&amp;#x27;m okay with that, provided consumers won&amp;#x27;t think that &amp;quot;5Ge&amp;quot; stands for &amp;quot;Enhanced&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;Ersatz&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>AT&amp;T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones</title><url>https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/at-t-to-begin-upgrading-existing-lte-phones-to-5g-e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TomMckenny</author><text>I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts &amp;quot;8=16&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;12=32&amp;quot; etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a strange comfortable flexibility we have developed around truth.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost as if &amp;quot;freedom of speech&amp;quot; means you can massage the truth if it increase sales but god forbid you make a drawing of 90 year old cartoon mouse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&amp;gt; I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts &amp;quot;8=16&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;12=32&amp;quot; etc.&lt;p&gt;The left is number of rolls in the package, the right is the number of the same brand “standard” rolls it is equivalent to by length (there is accommodating text which makes this explicit); this facilitates price comparisons among packages with different roll sizes.</text></comment>