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"3G" also encompasses HSPA which supports real-world speeds in the 10s of megabits.

The original 3G UMTS (384kbps) was indeed dreadfully slow by today's standards.



HSPA+ will hit real-world speeds in the 10s of megabits, but HSPA won't. Both are technically in the "3G" spec, though, you're right about that. But they were marketed/branded as 4G almost immediately.


> But they were marketed/branded as 4G almost immediately

That was just a US thing though, right? Where I lived it was branded "Turbo 3G".

Isn't LTE already being branded as 5G in the US as well?




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