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LTE IS NOT 4G service.
Really? What is it then?
leonard made me lulz
Technically, leonard is correct. LTE is more like 3.9G technology, as is WiMAX. The ITU is the global standards community that defined 3G and is still working on the definition for 4G. Their IMT-2000 standard is what everyone agrees to be "3G" technology. This includes CDMA2000, WCDMA, HSPA and EVDO.
In 2007, WiMAX was accepted to become an official part of IMT-2000, meaning that it's officially recognized as a "3G" standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMT-2000
3GPP, the standards group in charge of defining LTE, announced last year that they also applied LTE to be a part of the IMT-2000 standard as well.
However, 3GPP is in the works of the next step that they believe will be true "4G" technology, LTE-Advanced. IEEE is also working on their own "4G" technology with 802.16m. Both are looking to have a peak DL speed of 1Gbps.
The problem with going by the IMT definition is that by IMT, EDGE and 1xRTT are also 3G, while in common use they typically aren't seen as being so.
It is and it isn't. 4G isn't properly defined anywhere, and those who argue it isn't tend to point at ITU drafts which include minimum bitrates as part of the definition.
In terms of "The generation after 3G", LTE is definitely that. LTE is based upon a high bandwidth low latency TCP/IP network, with high level services like voice and messaging running over the IP stack rather than using separate fixed bandwidth channels like prior systems. WiMAX, LTE, and the stalled UMB standard are all characterized by that architecture.
I think reasonable people can call LTE 4G. It's certainly next generation.