From: wb8foz@panix.com   
      
   VZ has widely hyped how Magical! their "Ultra Wideband" mmWave band   
   offering is.   
      
   Trouble is, given the useful range from a mmWave site to you is ~1000   
   ft, not a lot of folks ever get that mmWave signal, and thus see that   
   hyped logo on their phone.   
      
   BUT VZ has now solved that issue. Not by installing the zillions of   
   mmWave nodes needed to cover the country, but rather by fiat: If your VZ   
   phone grabs onto a midband signal, i.e. 3.7GHz-3.98GHz, it will ssay it   
   is "Ultra Wideband" on the display.   
      
      
      
   (It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!)   
      
   In 2019, it was AT&T that pulled a similar stunt. They changed their   
   display from "LTE" to "5G E." In response, T-Mobile offered to send out   
   sticky labels to its customers to "upgrade" their phones.   
      
      
      
   The more things change, the more they stay the same.   
      
   (Oh, and BTW, VZ's 3.7GHz-3.98GHz midband is the spectrum with the   
   controversy over interfering with aircraft radar altimeters.)   
      
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