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.
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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.