[Havoc]

Not to judge the Americans too harshly, but it seems to invariably be American companies who spin this bullsht. In other countries the carriers at least have the decency to call it LTE (with 4G sometimes mentioned in brackets).

As for the article linked - I wouldn't even call that "fooled by". That implies that there was a plausible case & the journalist was deceived via some active plot. If the reporter had done even vague research as to what 4G is (the topic of his article [lol]) then he/she would have smelled a rat. That to me is a straight up failure as a journalist, rather than "fooled by".

[300bps]

Your point is correct but I was actually speaking more broadly. Specifically, there is a friend of mine who has 3 CCIE certifications and actually works at Cisco. He knows more about wired and wireless networks than anyone I know. But his wife's iPhone 4s with AT&T showed a "4G" signal when it was connected so he just assumed it was legitimate 4G.