Apple Clarifies 4G LTE in Online Australian Store

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  1. News Bot iFans.com News

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    Ha. No surprise. Nice photo, by the way.
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    That very phrase implies that Australian networks "aren't up to scratch" with US ones, which is the reason for the incompatability. What "very fast cellular networks" is it talking about? The 4G networks in Australia completely blitz anything in the US, and most likely, in many other countries as well.

    Better phrasing would have been,
    :p
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    I live in the US, and that's still funny. ;)
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    Credit to Jacob on that!
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    Gonna have to say I'm glad I didn't buy an iPad this time around. I owned the iPad 1 and 6-months down the track it stopped charging and I needed a replacement. Put a nasty taste in my mouth. This is just the icing on the cake. LTE in Australia is quite literally blazing fast. I don't see why the United States - a country with many times the population of here - can't get LTE at the same speed. Then again, it only works with the biggest network bully - Telstra. They have the biggest network, and they know it. High prices and all, because they can. Anybody else on Vodafone, Optus, 3 etc wouldn't have received LTE speeds regardless until the networks were upgraded to be on par with Telstra.

    I really don't see why the ACCC complained. They're idiots.
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    Because it's misleading to people who have no idea of 4G/LTE networks. It's not idiotic at all.
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    Considering Telstra are the only ones with LTE, though; the ACCC complaint was unjustified. It wasn't overtly misleading by Apple. Who are they to know that our networks exceed their own in the US? Most people have no idea what 4G LTE is anyway. 3G is still *noticeably* dominant for the time-being. It's also very very limited in distribution, compared to the widespread 3G networks of the world - so why would it matter if they had no idea? If people don't know what it is, then it shouldn't be an issue. Until it's rolled out, that is.
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    If they don't know our networks exceed their own then they have no right to sell their product in our country. Their ignorance in the matter should not be our problem if our network is on a different frequency to theirs regardless whether the only provider is Telstra at the moment.
    And just correct me if I'm wrong but ignorance of the law excuses no one.
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  10. cocotutch Community Development Team

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    How is anybody supposed to know that LTE in the US, is different from LTE in Australia? It's the same standard, so theoretically it should be the same. I'm not defending Apple, but it was truly unreasonable that the ACCC start whinging about something that isn't even a real "standard" for communications yet.
    cocotutch, Mar 30, 2012
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